Ex-food minister Qamrul sent to jail in Wadud killing case

A court has sent former food minister Advocate Qamrul Islam to jail in a case lodged over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud in the capital's New Market area.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub passed the order as police produced Qamrul before the court on Tuesday after the end of his eight-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind bars till the end of the probe.

The court of Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman on November 19 had placed the former minister on eight-day remand in the case.

Police on November 18 arrested the former minister from a house in the Uttara Sector-12 area. 

Abdul Wadud was killed in the city's New Market area on July 19 last during the anti-discrimination student movement.

Wadud's relative Abdur Rahman filed the case on August 21 against 130 people including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Anisul Huq, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Salman F Rahman and Amir Hossain Amu.