Five including AL man put on 5-day remand

FE Team | Published: April 04, 2022 00:20:57

A Dhaka Court placed on Sunday an Awami League (AL) leader and four others on a five-day remand over the murder of a ruling party politician and a female college student in Shahjahanpur, reports UNB.
The accused are Omar Faruk (52), general secretary of ward No 10 unit of AL, and Abu Saleh Shikder alias shooter Saleh (38), Nasir Uddin alias Killer Nasir (38), Morshedul Alam alias Kayla Palash (51) and Arfanullah Damal.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur passed the order when the investigation officer Yeasin Shikder, inspector of the Detective Branch of Police, produced them before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.
On Friday night, the AL politician was among four people detained by the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in connection with the Shahjahanpur shooting.
On the night of March 24, AL man Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw, were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital.
Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu's driver was also injured in the firing.