2 arrestees on 8-day remand

Two arrested suspects in blogger Niloy murder case will be brought face-to-face with the victim's wife, a detective said yesterday.

“As part of our investigation, we'll produce the duo before the victim's wife Asha Moni to see if she can recognise them,” Deputy Commissioner Mahbub Alam of the Detective Branch (east) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police told The Daily Star.

If the arrestees are not identified by Asha Moni as her husband's killers, it will not necessarily prove that the two don't have any link with the murder, said the DB official.

Law enforcers arrested Saad-al-Nahin and Masud Rana, both suspected members of outlawed militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, from the capital's Uttara and Mirpur on Thursday, six days after assailants hacked Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy to death at his Goran residence in the city.

The two denied their involvement in the murder, but gave vital information about some suspects, said detectives.

Nahin is a nephew of State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu. Nahin along with three others was arrested in April 2013 for attempted murder of blogger Asif Mohiuddin in January that year. The four were later freed on bail.

TWO REMANDED

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Nahin and Rana on eight-day remand in the case after detectives produced the two before it, seeking 10-day remand for each of them.

DB Inspector Mahbubur Rahman, also the investigating officer of the case, told the court that they had adequate information and evidence about the involvement of the two in the murder.