Sylhet journalist remanded
A Sylhet court yesterday placed a photojournalist on remand for seven days in blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Farhana Yesmin of Sylhet passed the order after the Criminal Investigation Department of police produced arrestee Idris Ali before the court. The CID prayed for 15 days' remand for him.
The thirty-year-old is a lensman of the local daily the Sobuj Sylhet. The CID was taking him to Dhaka last night.
Acting on a tip-off, a CID team picked up the photographer from his house at Fatehgar village under Sylhet Sadar upazila around 2:00am yesterday, said Mirza Abdullahil Baqui, special superintendent of CID in Dhaka.
However, Idris' family members said police detained him in Sylhet city on Sunday night and raided his house later on.
CID inspector Arman Ali, the investigating officer in the case, said they have enough evidence of Idris' involvement in the killing.
Ananta was hacked to death near his Subid Bazar home in Sylhet city on May 12 around 8:15am.
The following day, Ananta's brother Ratshawar Das filed a case with Sylhet Biman Bandar Police Station accusing four unknown assailants of the murder.
Barely a month after the brutal murder of blogger Avijit Roy on the Dhaka University campus, blogger Oyasiqur Rahman was stabbed to death on March 30 in the capital's Tejgaon in broad daylight.
Religious fanatics have been blamed for the murders.
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