Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday placed Iftekhar Abedin on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed over the death of his wife, Dhaka University student Elma Chowdhury Meghla.
Elma, a final year student of the Department of Dance at DU, was allegedly tortured to death at her in-laws’ Banani residence in the city on December 14.
Magistrate Arafatul Rakib of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order after Md Salauddin Mollah, a Sub-Inspector of Banani Police Station and also the Investigation Officer of the case, produced him in the court with a five-day remand prayer.
Iftekhar was produced in the court on completion of his three-day remand prayer in the case.
In the remand prayer, the IO said that the accused gave important information about the death which was being verified. On the other hand, he did not disclose whereabouts of the two fugitive accused.
He needs to be remanded to gather more information about the death and whereabouts of the two FIR-named accused, the IO added. The Defence submitted a petition seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand prayer saying that their client was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass him. Upon hearing both the sides, the Magistrate turned down the defence plea and placed him on remand for quizzing about the incident.
Iftekhar Abedin was arrested after the victim’s father Saiful Islam filed a case against him and his parents.
