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Compatriot classmate arrested over murder of Indian student in Chittagong
A classmate of slain Indian student Ateef Sheikh has been arrested for his suspected involvement with last week’s murder in Chittagong.
Published : 19 July 2017, 02:37 PM
Updated : 19 July 2017, 06:58 PM
Niraj Guru, who is also from India and lived in the same flat with Ateef, was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon, said Akbar Shah Police Station Inspector Jakir Hossain Bhuiyan.
A Chittagong court later in the day sent him to jail after Niraj was produced before it.
No plea for his remand was filed on Wednesday, Chittagong Metropolitan Police’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Nirmalendu Bikash Chakrabarty told bdnews24.com.
He said the remand plea would be submitted after proper procedures needed to interrogate Niraj as he is a foreigner.
Niraj is a student of the University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC). Victim Ateef, 26, was also a student of the same batch there.
In the wee hours of Jul 15, according to Niraj, Ateef was found in a bloodied state on the floor of his room that he shared with another Indian student of USTC named Wilson Singh. Wilson was found hanging from the ceiling fan.
The police later confirmed that Ateef was murdered with a sharp weapon.
They lived in a flat on the fourth floor of the six-storey building on Abdul Hamid Road at Akbar Shah residential area. They shared it with Niraj and his wife, who is also studying at the same private university.
Niraj had taken both Ateef and Wilson to the hospital in the wee hours of Jul 15.
Wilson is still undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city’s Mehedibagh. The police are yet to question him.
Ateef’s father started a case over the murder with Akbar Shah police on Tuesday.
Though no one was named in the case, the police station’s OC Md Alamgir said they were keeping Wilson, Niraj, four other Indian students and two Bangladeshi students on the list of suspects.
Most of them joined in a boozing party at the victim's flat on that night. The next day, the police said that the incident occurred after that house party.
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