MP Gazi Nazrul placed on 4-day remand again

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Satkhira-4 MP and expelled Jamaat leader Gazi Nazrul Islam on a four-day remand again in a case over abetment to suicide of his second wife Mariam.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ripon passed the order when DB inspector Mohammad Salauddin produced him before the court after completion of his four-day remand.

The DB inspector also sought 7-day remand for Gazi Nazrul.

Earlier on September 21, a Dhaka court placed Satkhira-4 MP GM Nazrul Islam on a four-day remand  in the case.

According to the remand petition, the MP and his first wife were put on remand to investigate the suspected role of the accused in instigating, provoking, pressuring, intimidating, or otherwise inducing the victim to commit suicide.

The body of Nazrul’s second wife Mosammat Mariam Khatun, 19, was found hanging at NAM Bhaban in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area September 20.

Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Monir Hossain said they found the body hanging from a ceiling fan inside a room of Flat No. 203 on the third floor of Building No. 5 of NAM Bhaban.

Later, Nazrul and his first wife were taken into police custody for questioning.

Masum Billah, father of Mariam, filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. Mariam’s maternal uncle Obaidur Rahman was also made accused in the case.

Gazi Nazrul Islam was elected MP from the Satkhira-4 constituency in the 13th parliamentary election on a Jamaat-e-Islami nomination.

In July, a video showing him in a private moment with a young woman circulated on social media. He later identified the woman as his second wife  Mariam Khatun.

Jamaat-e-Islami subsequently expelled Gazi Nazrul Islam from the party. -UNB