Abrar killing: Fugitive Morshed surrenders

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Court Correspondent :
One of the four fugitives in BUET student Abrar Fahad murder case was yesterday sent to the jail after he surrendered to a Dhaka court.
Metropolitan Magistrate Yasmin Ara of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka sent fugitive Morshed Amartya Islam in the jail after rejecting his bail petition on Sunday afternoon.
Fugitive Amartya, fomer member of BCL’s BUET unit, who was a expelled student of Mechanical Engineering (batch 17) surrendered in the court around 12:00 noon for bail in the case.
On October 7, Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bangladesh University
of Engineering and Technology, was beaten to death allegedly by a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League members at the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall in Dhaka.
The murder triggered protests on campuses across the country. Many took to social media to demand justice for Abrar. On the same day of his death, Abrar’s father Barkatullah lodged a murder case against 19 BUET students with Chawkbazar Police Station. All are included in the charge-sheet of the case.
Eight of the accused made confessional statements to the magistrates narrating the horrifying torture on the victim. Sixty people were made prosecution witnesses (PWs) in the case.
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