Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- Police have filed an application seeking to keep Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former information advisor to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and chairman of private television channel DBC, in jail in a case over the murder of madrasa student Arif in Dhaka's Jatrabari during the July Uprising.

The application was filed by the case's investigating officer, Sub-Inspector Mohammad Amir Hossain of Jatrabari Police Station.

"There is no remand application against Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury for now. An application has been filed seeking to keep him in jail," he said.

The hearing on the application will be held at a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, said Sub-Inspector Mohin Uddin of the prosecution division.

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