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Published : 03 Mar 2015, 02:51 PM
Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim approved on Tuesday the remand plea filed by Detective Branch Inspector Fazlur Rahman.
Police Prosecution Wing Assistant Commissioner Mirash Uddin stood for the prosecution. There were no lawyers for Farabi and no bail petition was filed.
Avijit Roy, a US-based writer-blogger, was hacked to death on Feb 26 in Dhaka University by unknown assailants. His wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya was also injured.
He received regular death threats from Islamist radicals for his writings against religious fanaticism and superstitions.
Farabi, in different statuses and comments, had posted pictures of Avijit with his family and threatened to kill him when he returned to the country and also posted religiously provocative statuses from a Facebook page called ‘Farabi Blog’.
Farabi was picked up by the Rapid Action Battalion on Monday from Jatrabari while trying to leave Dhaka and was later handed over to the Detective Branch, which is investigating the murder.
He had been detained earlier, too, for trying to incite killings of bloggers following the murder of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February 2013 and was out on bail from the High Court.
Farabi had enrolled in the Chittagong University to study physics but did not complete the course. He tried to join Hizb-ut Tahrir in 2010.
