SYLHET, June 8 (UNB): A court placed on Monday local photojournalist Idris Ali on a seven-day remand in connection with the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder.
Judge of the Metropolitan Cognizance Court-3 Farzana Yesmin passed the order after Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police Arman Ali produced him before her court seeking 15 days' remand.
In his forwarding, the CID officer described Idris as a militant group member, saying he was directly and indirectly involved in the blogger Ananta murder.
Earlier, a team of CID arrested Idris, a photojournalist of the Daily Sabuj Sylhet published in Sylhet and son of Ilias Ali of Fatehgarh village under Airport thana, from his residence in the early hours of Monday.
Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Gonojogoron Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on May 12.
On May 13, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four persons with the Airport thana.
Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the 'Mukto-Mona blog', founded by blogger Avijit Roy who had been killed two and a half months ago after he came home from the USA.
On May 25, Police Headquarters asked the Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) to hand over the blogger killing case to the CID for investigation.
Journalist put on three-day remand
FE Team | Published: June 09, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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