A Dhaka Court on Wednesday placed Salman F Rahman, private industry affairs adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and former law minister Anisul Huq on 10-day remand each in connection with the murder case filed with New Market police station for the deaths of a student and a vendor during the student protests near Dhaka College.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mamunur Rashid passed the order. 

Police produced them before the court around 6:30pm.

Earlier, police sought 10-day remands for Salman F Rahman and Anisul Huq in the case. 

Salman and Anisul were arrested in Dhaka's Sadarghat on Tuesday in a case filed with New Market Police Station over the killing of a shop employee, he said.

The two were trying to flee using the waterway, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mainul Hasan told The Daily Star yesterday.

Coast guards detained them in Narayanganj's Pagla area and handed them to police, said the media wing of Bangladesh Coast Guard last night.

They were arrested on charges of instigating the killing of shop employee Shahjahan Ali, 24, on July 16, said court sources.