A Munshiganj court on Monday placed the youth, who was arrested for publicly beating two girls from a picnic party on a launch at Munshiganj Launch Ghat, on remand for two days.
Senior Judicial Magistrate of Munshiganj Cognizance Court-1 passed the order after hearing a remand petition.
Police sought 7-day remand for Jihad Hassan, son of Maniruzzaman of Jognighat in Sadar upazila of Munshiganj district.
Earlier on Sunday, police detained Jihad who went viral after publicly beating two girls from a picnic party on a launch at Munshiganj Launch Ghat.
Youth detained for beating girls on picnic launch at Munshiganj Ghat
On Friday evening, around 7:30 pm, a launch named MV Captain, along with 300/400 people from a picnic in South Keraniganj, anchored at the Munshiganj Launch Ghat.
After getting off the launch, a few people went to the ghat area to buy snacks, where a brawl broke out over bad comments being made against them.
Later, around 50 local people boarded the launch, beat up the people from the picnic and carried out vandalism.
At one point, two women were brought in front of the launch and beaten up in public. Later, the police and the army went there and controlled the situation.
A case was filed against Jihad and 25 unidentified people in this connection on Friday.