UNB, Sylhet :
Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested two siblings from East Paljur village in Kanaighat upazila early Friday in connection with the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.
The arrestees were identified Manan Yeahia alias
Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman alias AAM Noman, sons of Mainuddin of the village.
Tipped off, a CID team launched a drive at the village in the early hours and arrested the two brothers, said additional deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Mohammad Rahmat Ullah.
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 May 12.
On May 13, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with the 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.
Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested two siblings from East Paljur village in Kanaighat upazila early Friday in connection with the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.
The arrestees were identified Manan Yeahia alias
Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman alias AAM Noman, sons of Mainuddin of the village.
Tipped off, a CID team launched a drive at the village in the early hours and arrested the two brothers, said additional deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Mohammad Rahmat Ullah.
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 May 12.
On May 13, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with the 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.
