A court in Dhaka on Tuesday placed Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President and former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the killing of businessman Abdul Wadud in the capital’s New Market area during the quota reform protest.

Another Dhaka court remanded Workers Party of Bangladesh President Rashed Khan Menon, also a former minister, afresh in another murder case on the same day.

Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Hyder allowed the police to take Inu into their custody after the investigating officer sought 10 days to interrogate him in the case.

Inu was arrested from a house in Uttara on Monday.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman put Menon on a six-day remand in a case filed over the killing of garment worker Rubel at Adabor in the city.

The Workers Party chief was produced before the court today after the expiry of the five-day remand he was placed on in the businessman Abdul Wadud murder case.

Menon, also a leader of the 14-party alliance led by the former ruling party Awami League, was shown arrested again in the Rubel murder case and the investigating officer, in a petition, sought 10 days to interrogate him.

On 22 August, detectives arrested him in the Gulshan area.