Staff Reporter :
The law-enforcing agencies are yet to nab any suspected killer of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, who was hacked to death at his office in the city on Saturday.
Even the city police continue to face a blank wall as to who was responsible in the Lalmatia incident where another publisher and two secular writers were injured in an attack, police said.
The body of Dipan was found inside the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house at the city’s Aziz Cooperative Super Market. Earlier on the day, another publisher Ahmed Rahim Tutul and two writers were shot and stabbed by three men in the office of the Shudhdhoswar publishing house at Lalmatia in the city.
An affiliate of Al-Qaeda operating in the Indian subcontinent took credit for the attacks on the two publishers in a Bengali-language statement posted on social media. “These two atheist-apostates have published books that have attacked the honour of the Prophet Mohammed (SM) and mocked Islam,” read the statement.
Meanwhile, two cases were filed on Monday in connection with the murder of Dipan and three others injured.
Dr Razia Rahman Jolly, wife of the Dipan, filed a murder case with Shahbagh Police Station against unknown assailants, police said.
The case was filed around 2:15pm on Monday, nearly 44 hours after the body of Dipan’s body was recovered from his office.
Police recovered his body at around 6:30pm Saturday evening. Dipan’s publishing house had published a book of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy.
On the other hand, unidentified miscreants were sued in connection with the attacks on Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, and bloggers and writers Tareque Rahim and Ranadipam Basu at Lalmatia in the city.
Tutul filed an attempt to murder case with Mohammadpur Police Station against three unknown persons.
As the local police remain clueless over Dipan murder case, it was handed over to Detective Branch (DB) of Police in the evening, a senior official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told The New Nation on Monday.
“The murder case has already been transferred to DB. A special team of will investigate the case,” he added.
