Suspects in blogger Wasiqur murder on remand

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed two suspects arrested in connection with the murder of blogger Wasiqur Rahman on a eight-day remand for interrogation by police.Mizanur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Tejgaon industrial Area Police Station, produced two Madrasastudents to the court with a 10-day remand prayer.
Metropolitan Magistrate Younus Khan of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka granted remand for days’ remand after hearing. The students are Zikurullah, a Hathazari madrasa student and Ariful Islam, a student of Dhaka’s Darul Ulum madrasa, .
Earlier, blogger and online activist Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, 27 was hacked to death by three youths on his way to office in the capital’s Tejgaon Industrial area in broad daylight on Monday,
Two of the attackers were allegedly caught by the public and handed over to police. Both confessed to their involvement to the killing during primary interrogation. – Court Correspondent