A former vice-chancellor of Stamford University was sent on a six-day remand hours after his arrest yesterday in a case filed over an attack on Awami League central leader AKM Enamul Hoque Shameem, also a trustee of the university.
Detectives arrested MA Hannan Feroz, now the chairman of the university's board of trustees, at his Dhanmondi residence in the capital early yesterday, Abu Yusuf, assistant commissioner (media wing) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star.
A Dhaka court sent him on the remand after he was produced before it with a 10-day remand prayer.
On June 19, three criminals on a motorbike shot  Shameem twice in the left hand near Ibn Sina Diagnostic and Imaging Centre, on his way to the private university at Dhanmondi.
Rana Hawlader, driver of the motorbike who was arrested earlier, in a confessional statement before a Dhaka Court on Tuesday claimed that Feroz financed the attack on Shameem.
DB Inspector Shamsuddin Saleh Ahmed Chowdhury, also IO of the case, told the court that Feroz had provided money to a group who had shot Shameem.
Demanding exemplary punishment of the attackers and perpetrators, Shameem told The Daily Star that he had no personal enmity with Feroz. Earlier, seven persons were arrested in connection with the attack.