One lands in jail for blogger Ananta murder

A Sylhet court on Thursday sent Mohaimin Noman, one of the two siblings arrested in connection with the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das, to jail on completion of his seven-day remand.
Judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate court-3 Anwarul Haque passed the order after inspector (organized crime) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Arman Ali, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Mohaimin Noman before the court, UNB reported.
Inspector Arman Ali told reporters that Noman was directly involved in the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das adding that remand might be sought again against him if it is necessary.
Earlier, on Wednesday, Noman’s elder brother Manan Rahi made a confessional statement under section 164.
A CID team also arrested another suspect, Abul Khayer, from Tukerbazar on the suburbs of the city early Wednesday.
Earlier on August 28, members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman, 26, from East Faljur village in Kanaighat upazila.
On the same day, they were put on a seven-day remand in connection with the killing.
Rahi, also a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), used to post writings on his facebook account against bloggers and his brother Noman used to run several facebook accounts.
Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Manch, 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 people with the Airport Police Station.
Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the ‘Mukto-Mona blog’, founded by blogger Avijit Roy – who had been murdered two and a half months ago after he came home from the USA.
-SS