UNB, Dhaka :
The United States is hoping to see a ‘breakthrough’ in the ongoing investigation into the murder case of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy saying the ‘real culprits’ will hopefully be netted.
“We’ll continue to be optimistic that there will be a breakthrough. I am absolutely hopeful that the real culprits will be caught,” US Ambassador in Dhaka, Marcia Bernicat, told reporters on Tuesday after attending a function in the city’s Mirpur area.
There has been no much headway into the killing case over last one year as
the suspects, who are in jail, did not give any confessional statement admitting their involvement. Avijit, son of noted physicist Ajoy Roy and founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was hacked to death, and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya was injured as unidentified killers attacked them with meat cleavers near TSC on the Dhaka University Campus on February 26 in 2015.
The expatriate couple living in the US returned home a few days before the killing as Avijit’s two books were published on the occasion of the Ekushey Book Fair.
Responding to a question, the US diplomat said they are ‘very satisfied’ with the cooperation from the police in Bangladesh as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became part of it.
The United States is hoping to see a ‘breakthrough’ in the ongoing investigation into the murder case of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy saying the ‘real culprits’ will hopefully be netted.
“We’ll continue to be optimistic that there will be a breakthrough. I am absolutely hopeful that the real culprits will be caught,” US Ambassador in Dhaka, Marcia Bernicat, told reporters on Tuesday after attending a function in the city’s Mirpur area.
There has been no much headway into the killing case over last one year as
the suspects, who are in jail, did not give any confessional statement admitting their involvement. Avijit, son of noted physicist Ajoy Roy and founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was hacked to death, and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya was injured as unidentified killers attacked them with meat cleavers near TSC on the Dhaka University Campus on February 26 in 2015.
The expatriate couple living in the US returned home a few days before the killing as Avijit’s two books were published on the occasion of the Ekushey Book Fair.
Responding to a question, the US diplomat said they are ‘very satisfied’ with the cooperation from the police in Bangladesh as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became part of it.
