A Dhaka court today (July 23) placed seven people on a four-day remand each in a case lodged over murder of Mohammad Oliullah Rubel, former office secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) capital's Shahjahanpur unit.

The accused are- Alif Hossain, 21, Robiul Sunny, 21, Mehedi Hasan, 19, Md Shahjalal, 37, Rafikul Islam, 38, Nur Alam, 42, and Sumon Mir, 28.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohagh Uddin passed the order as police produced the seven before the court with a seven-day remand plea.

Another accused Habib Ahsan today gave confessional statement in the case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mosharraf Hossain recorded his statement under section 164. The court later sent him to jail.

Detective branch (DB) of police arrested the eight from capital's Jatrabari area last night.

Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at the same time arrested two other accused Md Adnan Asif, 20, and Md Shakil, 20, from capital's Uttara area. They allegedly took part in the brutal killing directly.

According to the case documents, Rubel was viciously hacked by unidentified assailants at around 1.15pm on July 20 at Gulbag Joardar Lane area of capital's Shahjahanpur. Family members rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead.

Rubel's wife Tanjina later filed the case with Shahjahanpur Police Station.

BDST: 2004 HRS, JULY 23, 2023
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