Abrar Murder Case: Accused wants to withdraw confession
One of the accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case, Moniruzzaman Monir, yesterday submitted a petition to a Dhaka court for withdrawal of his confessional statement given earlier before a magistrate.
Monir, now in jail, claimed in his petition that he was forced to give the statement while he was on remand. He mentioned that Detective Branch of police took him on remand on October 9 last year. During the remand, he was “tortured inhumanly”, so he agreed to give a confessional statement.
In his statement given on October 15, he said he was involved in the plan to beat Abrar from the beginning, and he beat up the victim with a stamp. He also said he was present until Abrar’s death.
The court, however, kept the petition in the case file, and issued no order in this regard.
Meanwhile, the court yesterday ordered police to publish advertisements in two national dailies asking four fugitives in the case to appear before it on January 13.
The fugitives are, Buet BCL deputy office secretary (expelled) Mustafa Rafid and its members Morsheduzzaman Jishan, Ehtashamul Rabbi Tanim (expelled), and Morshed Amartya Islam.
The 21 other accused in the case’s charge sheet are now in jail.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Kaisarul Islam passed the order after receiving reports on execution of arrest warrants issued earlier against the four.
On October 7, Abrar, a second-year student of electrical and electronics engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, was beaten to death by a group of BCL men at the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall.
Eight of the accused gave confessional statements before magistrates narrating the horrifying torture. Sixty people are prosecution witnesses in the case.
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