Zubair Murder at JU
Court wants report on warrants again
A Dhaka court yesterday served a fresh order on police to submit by May 24 reports on execution of the arrest warrants against nine fugitive accused in Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed murder case.
Zubair, an honours final year student of English department, was brutally tortured and stabbed on January 8 over previous enmity. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in the capital the following day.
The university syndicate on January 30 expelled for life seven activists of the university unit of pro-Awami League student body Bangladesh Chhatra League and six others for two years after a probe committee found their involvement in the murder.
Mir Shahin Shah Parvez, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station and investigation officer of the case, on April 8 pressed charges against the 13 BCL activists, including the nine fugitives, for their alleged involvement in the killing and appealed to the court to issue arrest warrants against them. All the 13 were honours final year students.
The fugitives are Khan Mohammad Rais of zoology department, Rashidul Islam and Ishtiaq Mehbub (Arup) and Kamruzzaman Sohag of philosophy, Majharul Islam and Mahamudul Hasan Masud of history, Najmul Hossein Plabon of public administration, and Shafiul Alam Setu and Abhinandon Kundu of statistics departments.
Four others-- Khandaker Ashikul Islam alias Ashik and Zahid Hasan of zoology department, Mahabub Akram of government and politics, and Najmus Sakib Topu of biochemistry and molecular biology departments--were arrested earlier and are now in jail. The students expelled for life are Ashik, Rais, Zahid, Rashidul Islam, Arup, Akram and Topu.
The court on April 15 asked Ashulia police to submit the reports by yesterday. As the officer-in-charge of the police station failed to submit any report within the time, Judicial Magistrate Washim Sheikh passed a fresh order.
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