Ex-agriculture minister Abdus Shahid on 3-day remand

A court has placed former agriculture minister Md Abdus Shahid on a three-day fresh remand in a case lodged with Uttara West Police Station under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury passed the order as police produced him before the court and pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand. The defence, however, argued for his bail.

After hearing both sides, the court placed Md Abdus Shahid on a three-day remand on Wednesday. 

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman on October 30 placed him on a four-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of bus driver Alamgir Hossain during the student-led mass uprising.

The former agriculture minister was arrested in Uttara in the early hours of October 30. Tk 3.20 crore, 1,953 USD, 1,120 Canadian dollars, 1,100-euro, 3,117 Qatari Riyal, 5,300 Thai Baht, 500 Mexican pesos, 50 Hong Kong dollars, and 3,000 Indian rupees in cash were recovered from his house during his arrest.

The case was filed under section 23 (1) of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947.