Content creator Tawhid Afridi was produced before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court by police today. Photo: BSS

DHAKA, Aug 25, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today placed content creator Tawhid Afridi on 5-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Asadul Haque Babu in the city's Jatrabari area during the July mass uprising.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order as police produced Afridi before the court and investigation officer CID inspector Khan Md Erfan pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand.

A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police on August 24 arrested Tawhid Afridi from Barishal.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zia Uddin on August 18 had placed Afridi's father Md Nasir Uddin Sathi, chairman of private TV Channel My TV, on a five-day remand in the same case.

According to the case documents, Md Asadul Haque Babu, 24, joined anti-discrimination student movement rally in Jatrabari paka rasta area on August 5, 2024. He got shot on his chest and leg at around 2.30 pm and was rushed to nearby hospital. Doctors at the hospital declared him brought dead.

Babu's father Joynal Abedin on August 30, 2024, filed the case with Jatrabari Police Station against 25 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.