Persons involved directly or indirectly to be put on trial: Police

Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), today said that police will investigate Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case upholding its highest level of professionalism and sincerity.

“Abrar murder is a gruesome incident and it is our duty to put the accused on trial irrespective of their party affiliation upholding our professionalism and sincerity,” said Monirul, also chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of the DMP.

While addressing a press conference at the DMP media centre on Minto Road this afternoon, Monirul, responding to a query, said, “The people who were involved in the murder directly or indirectly will be put on trial. Just keep your faith in us.”     

He also called upon the people to help the law enforcement agency with providing them information in this regard if they have to ensure a fair trial of the case.

Claiming that a total of 16 accused have so far been arrested in connection with the murder, Monirul said, “Our main focus is to find out the reason behind the killing.”

Responding to a query about Amit Saha, a resident of Sher-e-Bangla Hall’s room-2011 where Fahad was badly tortured for five hours before he died, Monirul said Amit might not have been present there at that time, but he has direct or indirect responsibilities in this connection.  

“After verifying some circumstantial evidence and data of information technology, it seems that Amit had responsibilities,” Monirul told the questioner.

When asked about the Facebook post of Abrar, Monirul said, “It is may be one of the causes but more information will come out through investigation.”          

About the role of police, the police official said permission from the authority is needed before entering a student hall and thus police could not respond immediately.

Despite this, patrol team of police went near the room, but they have been told that no incident occurred there, he said.   

“If there had been intelligence in our hands, police would have entered the room without waiting for the permission,” Monirul said.