Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday placed another accused in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of a student of University of the Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) on one-day remand.
Magistrate Nivana Kahir passed the order, putting victim’s friend Shafayat Jamil, 22, on one-day remand. Earlier, Jamil surrendered to the court and submitted an affidavit admitting his involvement in the incident.
Police produced him in the court and pleaded toput him under seven-day remand. The court ordered to send him to the jail rejecting his bail plea.
The court on January 31, placed victim’s friends and accused Mortuja
Raihan Chowdhury and Nuhat Alam Tasfir on five-day remand as father of the victim filed the case with capital’s Mohammadpur Police Station against four people including Neha, Mortuja and Tasfir earlier on that day.
According to the case docket, Mortuja on January 28 took the victim to Bamboo Shot Restaurant of Uttara Sector-3, where Neha and their other friends were earlier present and they mixed excessive alcohol in her drink.
At one stage, the victim fell sick and Mortuja took her to their friend Tasfir’s house. There Mortuja raped her. Next day, they took her to Ibn Sina Hospital and later Anwar Khan Modern Hospital, where she died two-day later.
