The Criminal Investiga-tion Department (CID) has said it has finally identified some of the perpetrators involved in the murder of TV show host Nurul Islam Farooqi four years after his death, reports bdnews24.com.
The perpetrators' names were disclosed during a detained extremist's confessional statement to the court, said CID.
The extremists killed Farooqi over ideological differences, said Special Superintendent of Police CID Mollah Nazrul Islam, based on the confessional statement of Hadisur Rahman Sagar.
Farooqi was killed at his residence by a group of assailants in the city's East Razabazar on Aug 27, 2014.
A presidium member of the Islami Front, Farooqi was also a central leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat.
The case was transferred from Metropolitan Detective Branch of Police (DB) to CID.
They discovered the names of a few suspects in the murder, including Sagar, when they took over the case last December, Mollah Nazrul said. Later, it was found that Sagar had already been jailed in another case, he added.
"He divulged some information related to the Farooqi murder case when we interrogated him."
Sagar then recorded his confession to the court under article 164 of the Penal Code on May 30. Sagar is the only suspect in the Farooqi murder case in the custody of Bangladeshi law enforcers, said CID.
"The killers believed that Farooqi was preaching a false ideology of Islam and Allah on the media that was not supported by the holy Quran and Hadith," said Mollah Nazrul.
Extremist group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB was angry at Farooqi for this and planned his murder, Sagar said in his confession.
Sagar claimed that he was waiting on the street outside the residence while other members of JMB went inside and killed Farooqi.
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