Cops quizzing four about personal feud

Police yesterday started interrogating four accused people to get further information on the personal feud, which the law enforcers claim led to the murder of Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam.
“We've gathered some evidence against them. We will see whether they confess or not," said Assistant Commissioner Ifte Khair Alam, spokesperson of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police. "We also need to know how the personal feud of one accused forced others to get involved.”
A judicial magistrate's court in Rajshahi yesterday remanded Jubo Dal armed activist Ibrahim Khalil alias Tokai Babu for three days and Islami Chhatra Shibir armed activists Zinnat Ali, Arif and Sagor for two days each, he told The Daily Star by phone.
Three of them were remanded for the third time.
In the murder case, law enforcers have so far shown arrested 17 people, six of them belonging to BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal and eight to Jamaat-e-Islami and its unofficial student wing Shibir. The rest are Shibir armed activists.
Shafiul, 48, a sociology professor and admirer of mystic philosopher Lalon, was hacked to death in front of his house, outside Rajshahi city, on November 17. Since the murder, his only son Soumin Shahrin Javin kept accusing militants, but the youth yesterday said he had confidence in the police investigation. With the four, 12 persons are remanded so far.