Dhaka, Dec. 8 -- Dhaka's Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid issued the remand order on Sunday after police produced Saikat in court seeking seven days for questioning in custody.

Saikat was arrested in connection with a murder case on Saturday, three days after Rumpa was found dead on a Dhaka street.

Saikat's lawyer Abdul Hamid Bhuiyan prayed for the remand to be scrapped but the court turned down his appeal.

"The suspect's father died a week ago. His uncle passed away a week before that. Saikat was called by the DB after the incident and he went to meet them with a clear conscience," he told the court.

He argued that it was unlikely for a person who has lost his father recently to be in a mental state to commit murder. The lawyer...