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Faizul confesses to knifing Prof Zafar Iqbal

March 19, 2018 00:00:00


SYLHET, Mar 18 (UNB): Faizul Hasan alias Shafiqur on Sunday confessed to the knifing Prof Dr Mohammad Zafar Iqbal before a magistrate court.

Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Haridas Kumar recorded his statement under section 164 when Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Jalalabad police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, produced Faizul before the court after expiry of his 10-day remand.

Earlier on March 8, Faizul was placed on a 10-day remand.

Faizul Hasan swooped on Prof Zafar Iqbal and stabbed him with a knife at the Mukta Mancha at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology during a celebration programme, 'Robofight,' of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department on March 3.


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