<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A Dhaka court on Thursday placed former law minister Anisul Huq and former prime minister’s adviser Salman F Rahman on a 5-day remand each in a case filed with Kotwali police station.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Arifur Rahman passed the order when Sub-Inspector Md. Rashidul Hasan, also investigation officer of the case, sought a 7-day remand for them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court rejected the bail petition of the defence lawyers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On September 13 Sub-Inspector Md. Sajib Mia of New Market Police Station&nbsp; filed the case with Kotwali police station.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anisul and Salman were arrested on August 13 while allegedly trying to flee via waterways from the Sadarghat area of the capital. They were remanded for a total of 25 days in three separate phases.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court sent them to jail showing them arrested in a new case on Wednesday morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the case details, acting on intelligence information from Bangladesh Bank revealing that the accused in a murder case were illegally holding various foreign currencies near the Number 2 Mosque at Sadarghat. When police conducted a raid, the accused attempted to escape but were arrested. Some foreign currencies were seized from their possessopn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>