ATTACK ON ZAFAR IQBAL Police look for Fayzul’s extremism link

Law enforcers till Monday were looking for the involvement of Fayzul Hasan alias Shafiqur, who stabbed Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus Saturday afternoon, with any extremist group, two days after the attack.
‘A joint-team of law enforcers has been continuing queries to find out the detailed identify of the attacker and his family background,’ 
said investigation officer of the case filed in this connection, Shafiqur Rahman, also officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station.
‘We are yet to find out Fayzul’s link with any extremist group,’ he said. 
He said that though he was the IO, everything of the case was not under his control as a joint group was working on the matter.
A top SMP officer said that Fayzul might be a follower of Ahle Hadith school of Islamic law. 
The IO in the case said that Fayzul’s parents, who were detained on Sunday late night, were not shown arrested in the case until Sunday evening. 
‘They are being interrogated in police custody,’ the police officer said, adding that Fayzul’s maternal uncle Fayzur Rahman and his paternal uncle Abdul Kahar Lalai were also being interrogated.
Fayzul’s father Hafiz Atiqur Rahman and mother Minara Begum were detained around 11:00pm on Sunday after they surrendered to Jalalabad Police Station. 
SMP additional deputy commissioner Abdul Wahab said Fayzul was undergoing treatment at Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital. 
‘He would be produced before the metropolitan magistrate court immediately after his release from the hospital,’ Wahab said. 
On Sunday morning, SUST registrar Ishfaqul Hossain filed the case against Fayzul and four other unidentified people for stabbing the university’s computer science and technology professor Zafar. 
Zafar was stabbed around on Saturday when he was inspecting the projects displayed in a robotic competition at Muktamancha on the campus as part of a two-day festival of electrical and electronics engineering students. 
The university students chased and caught the 24-year attacker immediately and handed him over to the law enforcers. 
Zafar was rushed to SOMCH and then he was taken to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka for better treatment.
Zafar Iqbal’s wife Professor Yasmeen Haque said that her husband’s health condition was improving.
Demonstration against the attack continued on SUST campus for the third consecutive day on Monday as the teachers and students staged separate programmes in demand of immediate arrest of the people behind the attack on professor Zafar.
The university teachers staged a sit-in in front of the library building.
Expressing solidarity with the demands, SUST vice-chancellor Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed and treasurer Elias Uddin Biswas also attended at the teachers’ prgrammes.
The students also observed different programmes, including bringing out a silence procession, forming a human chain, staging a sit-in and holding a rally. 
Besides, activists of Sammilita Sangskritik Jote wore red-badges, staged a street drama on the campus in the afternoon, and brought out a procession carrying candles in the evening

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