Detained ex-SUST students involved in criminal conspiracy, SMP commissioner claims
Five former students of Sylhet University of Science and Technology, who were picked up earlier by law enforcers, were involved in financial and criminal conspiracy, claimed Sylhet Metropolitan Police Commissioner Nisharul Arif.
"The main reason for the detention of the five former students was that they were involved in criminal conspiracy as financiers, and were also involved in provoking the peaceful movement to divert it," the SMP commissioner told our Sylhet correspondent.
He said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Dhaka detained them following the order of high authorities and later handed them over to the Sylhet Metropolitan Police. The detainees are currently being interrogated at Jalalabad Police Station.
The SMP commissioner said it would come out through investigation of their motives as financiers.
Meanwhile, the Sylhet Metropolitan Police has confirmed the identities of the five detainees -- Habibur Rahman Khan (26), Reza Noor Mueen (31), AFM Nazmul Shakib (32), AKM Maruf Hossain (27), and Faisal Ahmed (27).
Talking to this correspondent, Nazmul Shakib's wife Faiza Nadi said, "Some students from the university called Nazmul and asked for some money. Later, he sent Tk 3,000 through bKash. That may be his crime."
Reza Noor Mueen's wife Jakoyan Salwa Takrim told The Daily Star that in this protest, as a former student of the university, we have stood by the agitating students and contributed some money. "We had no political motives. I just gave money to help the juniors," she added.
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