HC judge's son held for acid throwing
A youth was arrested yesterday at the city's Gulshan for his alleged involvement in throwing acid on a friend.
Following the arrest, Safayet Ahmed Chowdhury, 25, was produced before a Dhaka court that placed him on remand for a day.
Gulshan police arrested Safayet after his car driver Shaheen and Zahid Hasan, a hired goon, arrested earlier made a confessional statement that they had thrown acid on Sabri-E-Zaman, 24, executive (IT) of Ericksson Bangladesh, on Safayet's instructions.
Police said Shaheen and Zahid threw acid on Sabri on August 5 around 2:00pm when Sabri was coming out of his Gulshan office.
Sabri's father retired wing commander Asaduzzman the same day filed a case with Gulshan Police Station in this regard.
Sub-Inspector Mustafizur Rahman, also investigation officer of the case, said Gulshan police along with a team of Rapid Action Battalion arrested Shaheen and Zahid on September 25.
The two arrestees then made the confessional statement under section 164.
Sabri's uncle Mohammad Milon told The Daily Star that about five months before the incident Safayet, son of a High Court judge and a businessman, introduced Mehrin to Sabri over the telephone and since then they became intimate. At one stage Mehrin was pressurising Sabri to marry her but Sabri denied doing so.
Mehrin informed Safayet about the matter, and Safayet set Shaheen and Zahid to attack Sabri, Milon said.
He also said Sabri's right portion of the face, chest and belly were critically burnt. Sabri took treatment in Singapore and is yet to recover fully.
After the arrest, Safayet's mother Salma along with a lawyer went to Gulshan Police Station.
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