[Bangla Daily Star] Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar was shown arrested yesterday in a murder case filed in connection with the August 21 grenade attack.Dhaka First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ehsanul Haque passed an order to show him arrested in the case for allegedly giving administrative support to the attackers.
The court order came after Abdul Kahar Akond, additional superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department of police and investigation officer of the case, submitted a petition to show Babar arrested in the case and place him on a ten-day remand for interrogation.
The court fixed October 28 for hearing on the remand prayer in presence of Babar and asked the jail authorities to produce him before it on that day.
Twenty-three people were killed and 300 others injured in the grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
Police filed two cases -- one for murder and another under the Explosive Substances Act -- with Motijheel Police Station a day after the grenade attack.