Prime accused Rabiul confesses to attack on UNO Wahida

Rabiul Islam, the prime accused in a case filed over the attack on Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat upazila nirbahi officer Wahida Khanom and her father, has made a confessional statement in a local court.

Imam Zafar, officer-in-charge of Detective Branch of Police and investigation officer of the case, said they produced Rabiul to Dinajpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Cognizance Court in the morning as he ‘agreed’ to make his confessional statement.

Senior judicial magistrate Ismail Hossain recorded his statement. Later, he was sent back to jail.

Rabiul was produced before the court after the expiry of his second-phase remand today. Police arrested Rabiul on September 9 and he reportedly confessed his crime during his primary interrogation.

UNO Wahida and her father, Omar Ali, were seriously injured in an attack by miscreants at her home on the Upazila Parishad premises on September 3.

source: UNB