Flatmate placed on 2-day remand

A Chittagong court yesterday granted a two-day remand for Indian student Mainsnam Winson Singh in a case filed over the killing of his compatriot Ateef Sheikh, a student of University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC).

A fourth-year MBBS student Ateef, 25, son of Abdul Khalique of Assam, was stabbed to death in his flat in the port city on July 15 allegedly by his classmate cum flatmate Winson, of Imphal East of Manipur. Winson, who allegedly tried to kill himself by hanging afterwards, was rescued from the same room.

Police arrested Winson after he was released from a private hospital on July 23.

On Thursday, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) officials produced Winson with five-day remand prayer. Another flat mate Gangmei Niraj, 25, was held after Ateef's father filed a case on July 18.