Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police have sought a two-day remand for former Speaker Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in an attempted murder case filed at Lalbagh Police Station. The remand petition was submitted to the court on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier that morning, she was shown arrested in the same case linked to the anti-discrimination movement.

According to the report, Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was detained early Tuesday from her cousin Arif Masud Chaudhury’s residence in Dhanmondi and later interrogated at the Detective Branch office on Minto Road. She also faces a murder case related to the July uprising, in which a gold worker named Muslim Uddin was shot dead in Rangpur on August 27, 2024. Police said she has six cases filed against her in various police stations across Dhaka.

The report adds that Shirin Sharmin had been in hiding since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024, and resigned from her position as Speaker on September 2 of the same year.