A Sylhet court yesterday recorded the confessional statement of the lone attacker in a case filed for attacking Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust).

Haridas Thakur, a metropolitan magistrate in Sylhet, recorded the statement of Foyzur Hasan under section 164, said Abdul Wahab, additional deputy commissioner (media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.

He was first produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's court after his 10-day remand ended and later on the court sent him to Haridas Thakur's court, the ADC said.

Quoting the statement, he said Foyzur admitted that he carried out the attack to kill the professor. Officer-in-Charge of Jalalabad Police Station Shafiqur Rahman, also investigation officer of the case, said Foyzur's brother Enamul Hasan will be produced before the court today after an eight-day remand.

On March 3, Foyzur, a suspected Islamist, attacked Prof Iqbal with a knife at the Mukto Mancha on Sust campus. Caught by students immediately, Foyzur was then beaten up and handed over to the Rapid Action Battalion. On March 8, after a five-day stay at hospital, he was placed on remand for 10 days.

His father Atiqur Rahman, mother Minara Begum and uncle Fozlur Rahman are in jail after completing different periods of remand.