Former Education State Minister Kazi Keramat Ali Shown Arrested in Another Case

A court has shown former state minister for education and former Rajbari-1 MP Kazi Keramat Ali arrested in another new case filed over an attack on the anti-discrimination student movement.

The case was filed with Rajbari Sadar police station over an attack on protesters in Rajbari on 26 August 2024. He has been shown arrested in that case as an accused found during the investigation.

On Wednesday (4 November), at around 12:15 pm, when he appeared in court for a regular hearing, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Haider Ali granted the application to show him arrested.

Rajbari district bar lawyer Advocate Ashrafur Islam Asha said the court passed the order following an application by the investigating officer of Rajbari Sadar police station. Kazi Keramat Ali is currently in district jail.

He added that the application sought to show him arrested in the new Sadar police station case, GR 328/24, and the court granted it.

According to the lawyer, Kazi Keramat Ali is under arrest in a total of five cases. Four of them are with Sadar police station and one is with Goalanda Ghat police station.

Of those five cases, he has secured bail from the High Court in two. He has not yet received bail in the remaining three, the lawyer said.

Earlier, on 6 April, the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police (DB) arrested Kazi Keramat Ali in a case over the attack on anti-discrimination students.

The next day, 7 April, he was taken to Rajbari and shown arrested in the case over the Rajbari incident.