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Published : 19 Nov 2025, 06:32 PM
Two individuals have testified in the murder case of Jagannath University (JnU) student Jobayed Hossain: Saikat Hossain, a JnU student and junior to Jobayed on campus, and Wahidur Rahman, a physician at Salauddin Specialised Hospital and the uncle of Jobayed’s student.
On Wednesday, Saikat told the court that he had been in occasional contact with Jobayed’s student, Barjis Shabnam Borsha.
She had obtained his number from Jobayed, he said, and the two would exchange greetings on WhatsApp. She later sent him a friend request on Facebook, but they had no further communication after that.
According to Saikat, around 6pm on Oct 19, while he was on campus, Barsha texted him on Facebook Messenger asking: “Bhaiya, where are you?” Saikat replied that he was at the university.
“She then asked if I had his [Jobayed] mother’s number,” he said. “I asked why, what had happened? She said she needed the number. When I asked whether something had happened to him, she replied, ‘Someone has killed him, it seems.’
“When I asked what she meant by ‘killed’, Borsha said he had been murdered.”
Saikat said he then tried to call the student but failed to reach her, after which he informed his seniors on campus.
In his testimony, Wahidur said: “On Oct 19, I was at home and sitting in the drawing room watching television. Suddenly, my wife’s cousin from the second floor called and said someone was lying on the stairs.”
He immediately opened the door and found an unidentified man lying injured and bleeding on the staircase.
As relatives gathered amid their screams, it was identified as the body of his niece’s private tutor, Jobayed.
Wahidur said they immediately called 999 to alert the police.
He said that he later learnt his niece had been in a romantic relationship with another boy and also had a romantic relationship with Jobayed.
He told the court that this conflict led his niece’s ex-boyfriend to murder Jobayed and flee the scene on the day of the incident.
