A virtual court in Dhaka today rejected bail petitions of five accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case.
The accused are: Mehedi Hasan Rasel, a 13th batch student of civil engineering department and general sectary of Buet BCL; Muhtasim Fuad, a 14th batch student of civil engineering department and Buet BCL vice-president; ASM Nazmus Sadat, a 17th batch student of mechanical engineering department; Morshed Amartya Islam, a 17th batch student of mechanical engineering department; and SM Mahmud Setu, a 14th batch student of chemical engineering department.
Judge Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 passed the order after their lawyers submitted separate bail petitions through email on Thursday.
The judge, in his order, said the accused were directly involved with the murder and some of them had earlier given confessional statements before magistrates on different dates. So, their bail petitions were rejected, the judge added.
Abrar, a second-year student of electrical and electronic engineering department of Buet, died after he was brutally beaten by some Chhatra League men at Sher-e-Bangla hall of the university in the early hours of October 7 last year.
Fahad's father filed the case with Chawkbazar Police Station against 19 Buet BCL leaders.
The incident triggered a firestorm of protests on campuses across the country. Many took to social media to demand justice for Abrar.
Amid protest on the campus, Buet authorities on October 11 banned all political activities on the campus and suspended 19 students, mostly leaders of the university's BCL unit, accused in Abrar Fahad killing case.
On November 13 last year, detectives submitted a 105-page charge sheet against 25 Buet students in connection with the murder case.Of them, 22 accused were earlier arrested and they were remanded several times.
Three of the accused have been absconding since the incident took place.
Following the charge sheet, the court had earlier accepted and issued arrest warrants against them.
The court also ordered to publish advertisements in two national dailies asking the three fugitives to appear before the court within a stipulated period.
But the three fugitives were yet to surrender before the court.
