Police granted five days to question second suspect over Sylhet boy murder

Police have been given five days to grill a second suspect held for torturing a 13-year-old boy to death in Sylhet.

Sylhet Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 14 July 2015, 08:27 AM
Updated : 15 July 2015, 04:03 AM

The court of Sylhet’s Metropolitan Magistrate Farhana Yasmin granted the remand on Tuesday after police sought seven days for Ismail Hossain Ablus, who was arrested on Monday morning.
 
So far, two people have been arrested over the murder and both are now in police custody.
 
On Monday, the court ordered five-day remand for Muhith Alam, who was nabbed by locals and handed over to police.
 
On the morning of July 8, Samiul Islam Rajan was brutally tortured to death. One of the suspected assailants filmed the whole incident and posted it on the social media.
 
Locals caught Alam and handed him over to police on the same day when he was trying to take away Rajan’s body in a microbus. Alam’s wife was also detained by police on Monday evening.
 
Alam’s brother Kamrul Islam, one of the four charged with the murder, was arrested in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on Monday, said the Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
 
Twenty-four-year old Islam, a Saudi expatriate, had left Bangladesh after he and several others had allegedly beaten Rajan to death.
 
The other two suspects named in the case filed by police— Haider Ali, 34 and Moyna Mia, 45 — are yet to be arrested.