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Another accused in blogger Avijit murder case held

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Published: 10:22, 25 November 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Another accused in blogger Avijit murder case held

Staff Correspondent: Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit (CTTC) with the help of Dhaka District Police's Detective Branch (North) claimed to have arrested another accused in connection with the case filed over the killing of blogger and writer Avijit Roy.

The arrestee is Md Arafat Rahman, 24, operation wing member of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam.

Tipped off, a team of CTTC unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) launched a drive in Borodeshi area in Aminbazar of Savar on Friday night and arrested him, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of DMP Masudur Rahman said.

The organising name of Arafat Rahman is Siam alias Sazzad. He has confessed to taking part in the killings of USAID official Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy, blogger Niladri Chottapadhyay Niloy and Faisal Arefin Dipon during the interrogation, the police official said.

Arafat Rahman said that he had taken part in the Avijit murder following the instruction of sacked and absconding army Major Syed Ziaul Haque, alleged military wing chief of the banned militant outfit, Masudur Rahman said.

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.

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