A Dhaka court has granted seven-day remand for each of six persons including former telecom and ICT minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak and former deputy speaker Shamsul Hoque Tuku in a student killing case lodged in the capital.

The other put on remand on Sunday were former deputy sports minister Arif Khan Joy, Awami League organizing secretary Ahmad Hossain, Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail and Chhatra League's Dhaka University branch general secretary Tanveer Hasan Saikat.

The investigating officer of the case is from Lalbagh Police Station. The officer applied to put them on remand for 10 days, after producing them at the court of Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Arobia Khanam. The court granted seven-day remands for each of the accused.

Earlier on 14 August, Shamsul Hoque Tuku, Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Tanveer Hasan Saikat were arrested while hiding in Nikunja residential area of the capital. The next day, the court granted 10-day remands for each of them in the murder case concerning a rickshaw driver named Kamal Mia.

Another court granted a five-day remand of former Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Arif Khan Joy on August 20 in the case of the murder of grocer Abu Sayed in Mohammadpur.

Earlier, Ahmad Hossain was arrested from Gulshan in the capital and Sohail from Banani area on the night of August 20. The next day, the court ordered their remand for four days in the murder case of Jubo Dal leader Navin Talukder at Paltan police station.