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Police to question 11 over RU teacher murder

Monday, 17 November 2014


Eleven people have been shown arrested over the murder of Rajshahi University teacher AKM Shafiul Islam.
Police produced them before the court of Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Monday and sought a 10-day remand to interrogate them, Motihar police OC Alamgir Hossain said.
The court might hear the matter on Tuesday, said OC Hossain, the investigating officer of the murder. "The court has ordered the 11 into jail."
Among them is Humayun Ahmed, the principal of Islamia Degree College, a stronghold of Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.
Another teacher of the college Fazlul Haque is also among the arrestees.
The others are Mosharraf Hossain, Abdullah Al Mahamud, Mashiur Rahman, Hasibur Rahman, Jinnat Ali, Saif Uddin, Rezaul Karim, 'Sagar' and 'Arif', according to a news agency.