Sagar Biswas :Detectives are yet to find any visible progress into the killing of secular publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan though six days have already been elapsed in the meantime.On Saturday, a gang of suspected Islamists armed with machetes and cleavers hacked Jagriti Prakashani publisher Dipan to death in his publishing office at Aziz Super Market in the city. Two secular bloggers and another publisher were also seriously injured in a similar attack hours earlier in their office at Lalmatia in the capital.According to investigators, a ‘sleeper cell’ of well-trained assailants has launched the attack in the same style, in which way they [such sleeper cells] played their role earlier in bloggers’ killing. In sleeper cell tactic, the assailants divided into small groups take part in the targeted killings. It becomes almost impossible to the investigators to catch the real killers as every team separately executes a specific part of the operation, and they usually do not keep touch with other group, the investigators said.”Two cases, filed in Dipan killing and the attacks on Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul and two others, are now under investigation by DB. The Dhaka South Division of DB is investigating the Dipan murder case while the DB Dhaka West Division is looking into the other case,” said Deputy Commissioner of DMP Muntasirul Islam yesterday.Refuting the allegation of slow investigation process of the bloggers’ killing incidents, he said: “The detectives are doing their duty very responsibly. There is also progress in the other investigations.””The charge sheet is ready in the Rajib Haider killing case [another slain blogger]. Eight persons were arrested over the killing of Avijit [blogger]. Four others were arrested for the killing of Niladri Neel [blogger]. All the cases are progressing in their own courses,” Muntasirul Islam alos said elaborating the progress the bloggers’ killings. Calling the victims ‘atheists and blasphemers’, a militant outfit affiliated to al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent [AQIS] claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police, however, said they were sceptical of the IS claim. The police rather suspected that the banned Islamist terrorist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team [ABT] was behind the series of attacks.”Apart from the DB, the Criminal Investigation Department [CID], Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] and other agencies are investigating the incidents,” said DMP Additional Commissioner (crime and operation) Sheikh Maruf Hasan said.Major Md Maksodul Alam, Deputy Director of RAB said, “We have not been able to identify any suspects yet. We are still scrutinising the video footage of the Aziz Super Market and its adjacent buildings which has been collected.” Meanwhile, the intelligence failure is widely blamed behind the series of attacks where the law enforcement agencies are seemed to be helpless. All the intelligence agencies, including Special Branch, Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division, National Security Intelligence and Directorate General of Forces Intelligence were in alert after the killing of two foreign nationals, one Italian aid worker and another Japanese farmer. But all went in vain as militants attack is going on one after another uninterrupted. “Although there are several intelligence agencies, they have failed in the recent time. The intelligence agencies failed to take precautionary measures, whereas bloggers are being killed after the Ganojagaron Mancha movement,” said Professor of Criminology Department of Dhaka University Syed Mahfuzul Huq Marjan.At present, Shuddhaswar Prakashani publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, writer and bloggers Ranadipam Basu and Tarek Rahim are now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital [DMCH]. “Operation of Tarek is successful and his sense has returned. But he is still not out of danger due to severe cut and fracture in his left hand fingers,” Chief of Orthopedic Department, DMCH, Professor Dr Md Shamsuzzaman said on Thursday.He said: “It took four hours to complete the operation of Tarek. There were fractures from elbow to writs in his right hand. The artery of his hand was also linked. So, we hope the operation is successful. But he [Tarek] has got serious problem in the left hand. His left thumb has been attached with K-wire. The adjacent fingers are also not out of danger as blood circulation is very low there.” On the other hand, Assistant Director of DMCH Khawja Abdul Gafur said, “The condition of Tutul and Randip is well. They are now out of danger.”According to DMCH officials, there was a deep cut mark on the neck of Dipan and he died due to profuse bleeding. Besides, Tutul, Ranadipam and Tarek are also injured in the heads, hands and necks.
