Dhaka, April 26 -- Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's advisor Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq have been put in jail custody pending trial over the murder of Parvez Mia during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement in Dhaka's Jatrabari.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Kawser Pervin passed the order on Friday.Sub-Inspector (SI) Md Sharifuzzaman, the general recording officer of the court's Jatrabari Police Station, confirmed the decision.

After the end of their remand, the investigating officer SI Nazmul Hasan sought to keep them behind bars.

The court had earlier granted a four-day remand for the two on Feb 10.According to the case documents, Parvez joined an anti-discrimination protest in Jatrabari on Aug 5, the day...