Dhaka, Mar 19 (Just News): An aide of the lone attacker of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was placed on a seven-day remand today, a day after he was arrested from Sylhet yesterday.
Shohag Miah, an associate of Foyzur Rahman, was arrested from Jalalabad Residential Area yesterday morning, our Sylhet correspondent reports quoting Abdul Wahhab Miah, additional deputy commissioner (Media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.
Today, Shohag was produced before the Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which granted a seven-day remand for him, Assistant Commissioner (Prosecution) Omullo Bhushan Chowdhury said.
A Sylhet court on March 18 recorded the confessional statement of the lone attacker Foyzur in a case filed for attacking Prof Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust).
On March 3, Foyzur, a suspected Islamist, attacked Prof Iqbal with a knife at the Mukto Mancha on Sust campus. Caught by students immediately, Foyzur was then beaten up and handed over to the Rapid Action Battalion. On March 8, after a five-day stay at hospital, he was placed on remand for 10 days.
His father Atiqur Rahman, mother Minara Begum and uncle Fozlur Rahman are also in jail after completing different periods of remand.
(Justnews/ys/1510hr)
