Court again asks DB to submit probe report
A Dhaka court yesterday again ordered the Detective Branch of police to submit on April 26 the probe report of the case filed over the killing of writer-blogger Avijit Roy in February 2015.
Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi passed the order after Fazlur Rahman, an assistant superintendent of police of DB and also the investigation officer of the case, failed to submit any report by yesterday.
Earlier on February 22, the same court asked DB to submit the probe report of the case by yesterday. Apart from that, the court had fixed 22 dates for submission of the probe report by the IO, but the police failed to complete the probe.
Suspected militants hacked to death Avijit, founder of Mukto-Mona blog, near the Teacher-Student Centre on the Dhaka University campus on February 26, 2015. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya was injured in the attack.
Victim's father Ajay Roy filed the murder case against unidentified assailants with Shahbagh Police Station.
The Bangladesh-born US citizen had come home with his wife only a few days ago as his two books were published during the Ekushey Book Fair that year.
Police have so far arrested seven suspects for their alleged involvement with the killing.
Seven of the suspects -- Shafiul Rahman Farabi, Sadekur Rahman Mithu, Alimul Mallik, Towhidur Rahman, Julhaj Biswas, Jafran -- are now behind bars. Other suspect Abul Bashar, brother of the Ansarullah Bangla Team's (ABT) spiritual leader Jashim Uddin Rahmani, died in jail custody while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
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