Blogger Ananta murder
Five on 7-day remand
SYLHET: A court here yesterday placed five accused on a seven-day remand each in a case filed over the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.
Those who were remanded are Bangladeshi-born UK national Tawhidul Islam, Aminul Mollik, Idris and Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman.
Judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate-2 S M Anwarul Haque passed the order after investigation officer of the case Arman Ali, an inspector of CID Organised Crime, produced them before the court seeking a 15-day remand.
Earlier, on June 8, a CID team arrested Idris, a photojournalist of the Daily Sabuj, published in Sylhet and son of Ilias Ali of Fatehgarh village under Airport Police Station, from his residence. On August 28, CID police arrested Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman from East Faljur village in Kanaighat upazila.
On August 18, members of Rab-3 arrested Tawhidul Islam and Aminul Mollik from the road adjoining Star Kabab in the citys Dhanmondi area.
Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on the morning of May 12. On May 13, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed the case against four people with 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.
