Shawdesh desk:

A Dhaka court on Monday placed Masum Mohammad Akash, who allegedly killed Awami League leader Zahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afrin Prity on a busy city street last week, on a 7-day remand.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain passed the order after police produced him before the court with 15-day remand prayer.

A team of DB Motijheel Division arrested Akash in connection with the gun attack on Tipu on Sunday. Akash was also wanted in four cases.

Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Thana Unit of Awami League, was shot dead in a violent gun attack at Amtala in Shahjahanpur of the capital on the night of March 24.

College student Samiya Afran Jamal Prity was hit by a stray bullet and died shortly when she was passing by the area in a rickshaw. Monir Hossain Munna, driver of Tipu’s car, also sustained bullet injuries.

Farhana Islam Dolly, wife of Tipu, filed a murder case with Shahjahanpur Police Station the next day.