Musabbir Killing: Court grants Bilal three-day remand, jails two others
Police produced the accused before the court after they completed a seven-day remand.
A Dhaka court has placed Md Bilal on a fresh three-day remand in the murder case of Swechchhasebak Dal leader Md Azizur Rahman Mosabbir, while two other accused Md Abdul Qadir and Md Riaz, have been sent to jail after completing their remand.
The order was passed yesterday evening (19 January) following a hearing in the court of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain Mohammad Zunaid, confirmed Public prosecutor Shamsuddoha Suman.
Police produced the accused before the court after they completed a seven-day remand.
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During the hearing, the investigating officer, Tejgaon Police Station Inspector Muhammad Aminul Islam, sought a further seven-day remand for Bilal and requested that Abdul Qadir and Riaz be kept in custody.
In the remand petition, police said the accused had attempted to evade questioning during interrogation.
"Video footage of the incident and a confession given by previously arrested shooter Jinnat under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure reportedly identified the planners of the killing, those involved in financing the operation and the suppliers of the weapons," the petition added.
Police argued that further interrogation was necessary to uncover the motive, recover the weapon used in the killing, identify its source and arrest the prime suspect.
After hearing the petition, the court granted Bilal a three-day remand and ordered the other two accused to be sent to jail. No defence lawyer was present during the hearing.
Earlier, police arrested the three accused from the Purba Nakhalpara area under Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station on 11 January.
The following day, the Metropolitan Magistrate Court placed them on a seven-day remand.
According to the case statement, Mosabbir was spending time with friends in the Paschim Tejturi Bazar area under Tejgaon Police Station on 7 January, as he did regularly. At around 8:10pm, while heading home, he was stopped in front of the Ahsanullah Institute by four to five unidentified assailants and shot. Mosabbir collapsed after being hit by bullets. When his companion, Sufian Bepari Masud, tried to intervene, he was also shot.
Believing the victims to be dead, the attackers fled the scene.
Locals rushed both injured men to the hospital, where doctors declared Mosabbir dead. Masud was later transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment.
Following the incident, Mosabbir's wife, Suraiya Begum, 42, filed a murder case with Tejgaon Police Station on the same day.
