Ex-minister Farhad Hossain placed on 2-day remand

A court has placed former public administration minister Farhad Hossain on a two-day remand in a murder case. 

Meherpur Senior Judicial Magistrate Sharmin Nahar gave the order on Thursday. The court also ordered the ex-minister to be interrogated at the jail gate. 

Farhad was arrested from the capital’s Eskaton area on September 14. Two cases were filed against him in Meherpur and one in Dhaka. He was brought from Dhaka Central Jail to Meherpur District jail on Wednesday night.