Court Correspondent :The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday placed Shafiur Rahman Farabi, accused in the case filed for killing blogger Avijit Roy, on a two-day fresh remand.Earlier, Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Fazlur Rahman produced Farabi in the court with a 10-day remand plea afresh for interrogation while MagistrateMaruf Hossain granted the 2-day fresh remand after hearing. On March 3, this year, Magistrate Rezaul Karim of the CMM Court put the accused on a 10-day remand and Magistrate Ashok Kumar Dutta placed Farabi on 4-day remand on March 20.Farabi was picked up from Jatrabari area in the capital on March 2, as a suspect in the Avijit murder case. After he was detained at about 5 a.m. from a house on March 2, he was handed over to the DB police in the evening for interrogation.Shafiur Rahman Farabi is a son of Ferdousur Rahman from Baravila Kumarshil Kalairsharipara under Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila. He got admitted into the Physics department of Chittagong University after he passed HSC from Notre Dame College of Dhaka in 2005. But he did not continue his studies and joined the banned outfit Hijbut-Tahirir Bangladesh in 2010. He placed different provocative status in face book and blog after the murder of blogger Rajeeb Haider. Farabi was arrested on that occasion and later he secured bail from the court.On February 27, Avijit, a Bangladesh- born US citizen, was hacked to death after he came to the capital on a visit from the US to meet his family members and to attend his book’s publication in the country’s the then ongoing Ekushey Book fair. The incident occurred near the TSC intersection of Dhaka University. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya, also lost a finger of her hand in the attack.A number of other people were arrested in the Avijit murder case and they were also put on remand for police interrogation. Even, on September 11, three people, namely Abul Bashar, Zulhash Biswas and Jafran Al Hasan alias ‘Justice’, who are known to be banned outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team men, were placed on 7-day remand each for interrogation.
