Charge sheet, accusing 10 people, in blogger Avijit Roy murder case will be submitted next month, according to a high official.
“We will submit the charge sheet of the case to the court after completing all necessary formalities accusing 10 people of which three have already confessed their involvement in the killing,” Md Monirul Islam, Chief of the Counter-Terrorism and
Transnational Crime (CTTC) on Saturday told the media.
Those who gave confessional statements in the court are Shahriar alias Saymon, a computer engineering graduate from the Sylhet University of Science and Technology (SUST), Abu Siddique alias Sohel and Arafat Hossain alias Shams.
“All the three accused narrated the whole story of the killing, planning, motivation, training and execution and disclosed the names of 10 people, including Farabi, an abettor, who instigated the killers through Facebook campaign,” the CTTC chief said.
Major Zia and three others, who gave confessional statement to the court were seen in the video footage on the day of the killing of Avijit Roy, Monirul Islam who is also an Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) added.
“Police so far arrested four accused and identified sacked Major Zia, one Akram Hossain from Dhaka, Mukul Rana, a BA Honours student from Jashore and Selim after scrutinizing the close circuit cameras (CCC) set up in and outside the Bangla Academy,” said Md Saiful Islam, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of the CTTC.
Mukul Rana was killed in an encounter with RAB in Jashore in 2016 and fugitive Akram has already been charged with another blogger Ashiqur murder case, said Saiful Islam adding that they are trying to nab two more accused of the killing.
The case was transferred to the CTTC from the Detective Branch (DB) of police in December in 2016 and CTTC Inspector Monir Hossain was appointed its Investigation Officer (IO).
On February 26 in 2015, US-based Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy was murdered near the Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University by a gang of assailants, who severely injured.
“We will submit the charge sheet of the case to the court after completing all necessary formalities accusing 10 people of which three have already confessed their involvement in the killing,” Md Monirul Islam, Chief of the Counter-Terrorism and
Transnational Crime (CTTC) on Saturday told the media.
Those who gave confessional statements in the court are Shahriar alias Saymon, a computer engineering graduate from the Sylhet University of Science and Technology (SUST), Abu Siddique alias Sohel and Arafat Hossain alias Shams.
“All the three accused narrated the whole story of the killing, planning, motivation, training and execution and disclosed the names of 10 people, including Farabi, an abettor, who instigated the killers through Facebook campaign,” the CTTC chief said.
Major Zia and three others, who gave confessional statement to the court were seen in the video footage on the day of the killing of Avijit Roy, Monirul Islam who is also an Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) added.
“Police so far arrested four accused and identified sacked Major Zia, one Akram Hossain from Dhaka, Mukul Rana, a BA Honours student from Jashore and Selim after scrutinizing the close circuit cameras (CCC) set up in and outside the Bangla Academy,” said Md Saiful Islam, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of the CTTC.
Mukul Rana was killed in an encounter with RAB in Jashore in 2016 and fugitive Akram has already been charged with another blogger Ashiqur murder case, said Saiful Islam adding that they are trying to nab two more accused of the killing.
The case was transferred to the CTTC from the Detective Branch (DB) of police in December in 2016 and CTTC Inspector Monir Hossain was appointed its Investigation Officer (IO).
On February 26 in 2015, US-based Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy was murdered near the Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University by a gang of assailants, who severely injured.
