Quota reform activist Luma on 3-day remand

A Dhaka court on Thursday put quota reform leader Lutfur Nahar Luma Sarkar on a three-day remand in a case filed under ICT Act allegedly for spreading rumours on social media.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court judge Kazi Kamrul Islam passed the order after rejecting the bail appeal of the accused, Luma, a joint convener of Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Council, platform that leads the ongoing quota reform demonstration.

Earlier, the investigation officer of the case, Md Rafikul Islam, an inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTU), sought five-day remand to interrogate the quota reform demonstration leader.

The case was filed against her on 5 August with Ramna police station.

On early Wednesday, police arrested from Sirajganj, Lutfur Nahar Luma Sarkar, 21, daughter of Abdul Kuddus of Baoikhola village in Kashiani upazila in Gopalganj and a second year student of Social Science Department of Eden College.

On 12 August, students seeking quota reform threatened to go for tougher agitation if their three-point demand is not met by 31 August.

They came up with the ultimatum from a rally in front of Shahbagh National Museum.

Their demands are: Immediate release of the activists, who were detained during movement, from jail, punishment of the attackers involved in assaulting teachers and students and publish a gazette notification on quota reform in the civil service in line with their earlier five-point demand.