Abrar Murder: Roommate on 5-day remand

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Buet student Mizanur Rahman on a five-day remand in Abrar Fahad murder case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah passed the order after police placed Mizanur before court with a seven-day remand plea.

Meanwhile, 19 accused in the case were shifted to Kashimpur high security jail in different phases, reported our Gazipur correspondent.

Eight accused gave their confessional statements narrating horrific descriptions of torturing Abrar to death.

Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), died after he was brutally beaten allegedly by some Chhatra League men at dormitory of the university between October 6 night and the early hours of October 7.

The incident triggered a firestorm of protests on campuses across the country. 

Abrar’s father filed a murder case against 19 students of the university, mostly Buet BCL leaders, and several other unnamed accused with Chawkbazar Police Station on October 7.

Police so far have arrested 20 people, including 16 FIR-named accused, in connection with the murder case.