Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- A Dhaka court has sent Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former information advisor to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and chairman of private broadcaster DBC, to jail in a case over the alleged murder of a madrasa student in Dhaka's Jatrabari during the July Uprising.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque issued the order on Thursday, according to state prosecutor Muhammad Shamsuddoha Chowdhury.

The investigating officer, Jatrabari police Sub-Inspector Mohammad Amir Hossain, petitioned the court to detain him in custody.

Sobhan's counsel Choudhury Md Galib Raghib did not seek bail, focusing instead on hearings regarding his client's medical treatment and prison classification status.

Galib told the court, "He i...