Shomi Kaiser, Taposh sent to jail

A Dhaka court has sent actress Shomi Kaiser and Gaan Bangla television channel chairman Kaushik Hossain Taposh to jail following a three-day remand in connection with an attempt to murder case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiaq passed the order on Saturday, rejecting their bail pleas.

Earlier in the day, the investigation officer (IO) of the case produced them before the court with a plea to send the duo to jail until the investigation concludes.

One Ishtiak Mahmud on September 29 filed a case with Uttara East Police Station against 126 including former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.

Earlier on November 6, police arrested Shomi from a house on Road-6 of sector-4 of the city's Uttara area, while Taposh was arrested from Uttara on November 4.

According to the case documents, Ishtiak Mahmud along with others joined a rally of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement on 18 July. As the rally reached Azampur Nawab Habibullah High School in Uttara Sector-4, Awami League goons pounced on them, firing indiscriminately at the protesters.