Court Correspondent :
Ansarullah Bangla Team’s suspected activist Shihab alias Saiful alias Sumon alias Shakil on Thursday was placed on a five-day remand in connection with his alleged attempt to murder publisher and blogger Ahmed Rashid Tutul.
Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lutfor Rahman Shishir passed the remand order after hearing.
DMP Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam, while addressing a press conference at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media centre said, a team of DB police arrested two top leaders of Ansarullah Bangla Team, Chittagong unit, named Sayed Mohammad Mojahidul Islam and Ariful Islam Solaimani alias Arafat from Kamrangirchar of the capital on the night of June 13 this year.
On the basis of information given by the two detainees, a DB team arrested Shakil from airport bus stand area of the capital at about 8:30 pm on Wednesday, he added.
Shakil confessed to the law enforcers that he and his four accomplices were directly involved with the attack on publisher and blogger Ahmed Rashid Tutul and his two friends.
Earlier on October 31 last year, three persons, including Shuddhashwar publisher Ahmed Rashid Tutul, were hacked by unidentified assailants in the office of the publishing house in the city’s Lalmatia area.
