Court sends Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury to jail in July killing case

A court here today sent Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former information adviser to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to jail in a case filed over the murder of madrasah student Md Arif in the city’s Jatrabari area during the July Mass Uprising in 2024.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order as police produced Chowdhury before the court and pleaded to send him to jail in the case.

According to the case documents, Arif, a student of Lord Harding Senior Fazil Madrasah, was shot on Bou Bazar Road in the Kutubkhali area of Jatrabari on July 19, 2024. Locals rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctor declared him dead.

Arif’s father, Md Eusuf, filed the case with Jatrabari Police Station on August 26, 2024.

Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury was detained by a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police on November 4.