Dhaka: A court in Dhaka on Monday placed two people on police custody for three days each in a case over triple murder in Madhya Badda area in Dhaka.

Those who were remanded are Md Faruk Milon of Badda and Nur Muhammad of Madaripur district.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Atikur Rahman passed the order when inspector M Fazlul Haque of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced him before the court seeking 10-day police custody for each.

The court also rejected the bail petitions of the arrestees.

Earlier, detectives of DMP in a drive arrested the two from the city’s Badda area on Sunday night.

On 13 August, three people, including president of ward-6 unit of Awami League Shamsuzzaman Shamsu Mollah, 50, cultural affairs secretary of Dhaka (north) city unit of Swechchhasebak League Mahbubur Rahman Gama, were killed and another person sustained bullet injuries as a group of miscreants opened fire on them in Madhya Badda.