Not crossfire, take killers to court: Ajoy Roy

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bdnews24.com :He lost his son to mindless assassins, but the father of slain author Avijit Roy says he would rather see his son’s killers face a court of justice than be shot dead in so-called police encounters.Ajoy Roy, a retired physics professor of Dhaka University, spoke to bdnews24.com on Tuesday.”Crossfires are extrajudicial killing. I keep a conscience so I can’t possibly want that,” said the 76-year-old, stressing the need to catch terror suspects alive. Mukul Rana aka ‘Sharif’, who was said to have been a top operative of militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), was recently killed in a ‘shootout’ at Dhaka.

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