Court sets 25th deadline for probe report

A Dhaka court yesterday set its 25th deadline for the detective branch (DB) of police, to submit the probe report of the murder case of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ahsan Habib set the date to July 31, after DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman, also the investigating officer (IO) in the case, failed to submit any report by yesterday.

However, the IO did not give any reasons for the delay, court sources said.

Earlier on May 27, another Dhaka court had asked detectives to submit the report by yesterday.

Dipan, 43, publisher of Jagriti Prokashoni, was hacked to death at his office in Dhaka's Shahbagh in October 2015.

His wife Razia Rahman filed a murder case, accusing unknown persons.

Detectives have arrested three members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, who have all confessed to their involvement in the killing.