Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- A court here on Friday sent the former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Atiqul Islam to jail in a case filed with the Uttara East Police Station over the killing of Md Fazlul Karim on August 5.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Tithi passed the order as police produced Atiqul before the court after the end of his three-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of probe, reports BSS.

A court on January 22 remanded him in the case.According to the case documents, Md Fazlul Karim joined anti-discrimination rally in Uttara Jasim Uddin intersection on August 5. He got shot by assailants around 4:30 pm and was rushed to Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital, where h...