One more held, another makes statement
The detective branch of police on Saturday applied to a court for permission to have a forensic examination of the CCTV footage of the dormitory where Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad Rabbi was tortured to death on Monday over his social media comments about Bangladesh-India deals.
DB investigators said that they also sought permission from the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka for conducting a forensic examination by the Criminal Investigation Department of the mobile phone handsets seized following the murder.
One of the investigators said in their internal meeting that they decided to conduct forensic tests of the CCTV footage and mobile phone handsets to make the investigation process ‘more transparent’ and exemplary.
Police first seized the mobile phone of BUET BCL unit secretary and prime suspect in the murder case Mehedi Hasan Russell hours after Abrar was declared dead and later the DB investigators found the secret messenger group of torturers and their plot to torture Abrar.
‘We sought court permission for forensic examination by the CID of those mobile phones and CCTV footage,’ DB’s joint commissioner Mahbub Alam told New Age.
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Detectives said that another suspect Anik Sarkar who was named in first information report made a statement before metropolitan magistrate Atikul Islam on Saturday reportedly admitting his involvement in the incident.
Three of the arrested – Ifte Mosharrf Sakal, Meftahul Islam Zion and Anik Sarker – earlier made statements before the metropolitan magistrate under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The court, meanwhile, remanded another suspect Majedul Islam of BUET for a five-day interrogation in police custody. He was arrested in Sylhet on Friday.
DB personnel arrested Moaz Abu Hurayra of the BUET’s electrical and electronic engineering department from Uttara in the capital on Saturday morning.
With him, the DB so far captured 19 suspects, of whom 15 were named in the FIR while four others were arrested based on collaborative evidence.
‘We are collecting corroborative evidence and making efforts to arrest the suspects,’ said DB joint commissioner Mahbub.
He hoped that the charge sheet would be prepared by the first week of November depending on the availability of the evidence.
The investigators said that they were also pushing the coroners to prepare the autopsy report as early as possible.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital coroner Shohel Mahmud could not specify when he would be able to complete the report.
Abrar, a second-year student of the department of electrical and electronic engineering at the BUET, was tortured to death by a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders at his dormitory on Monday early hours reportedly for his critical views on social media over the recently signed deals between Bangladesh and India.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
