Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Ahmed Shahriar Reza Dwip, a friend of former Bangladesh Air Force Flight Lieutenant Tahsif Souri, on a two-day fresh remand in a murder case filed over his death.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ripon Hossain passed the order after hearing a remand petition. The court also rejected his bail petition.

The investigating officer, Inspector Firoz Uddin of the Tongi River Police Outpost, produced Dwip before the court on the completion of his second-phase two-day remand and sought a seven-day fresh remand.

In the remand petition, the investigator said preliminary findings suggested that Dwip had been directly involved in the murder and that further interrogation was necessary to uncover the mo...