<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A court here today sent to jail former shipping minister Shajahan Khan in a case lodged over the killing of Abdul Motalib,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">14, in the capital's Dhanmandi area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order as police produced him before the court after the end of his two out of seven-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of the probe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed on September 6 had placed Shajahan Khan, also Awami League presidium member, on seven-day remand in the case. Khan was arrested from the capital's Dhanmandi area on September 5.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Abdul Motalib joined student-people's procession in the capital's Dhanmandi area on August 4. He was shot on chest and throat as police opened fire on the procession.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Motalib's father Abdul Matin filed the case with Dhanmandi Police Station against 176, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Shajahan Khan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>