Police arrest BUET BCL leader Amit Saha over Abrar murder

Police have arrested another suspect in the grisly murder of engineering student Abrar Fahad inside a residential hall of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET.

Police have arrested Amit Saha, the legal affairs secretary to Bangladesh Chhatra League's BUET unit, in connection with the grisly murder of engineering student Abrar Fahad inside a univeristy residential hall.

Amit Saha was apprehended from the capital's Sabujbagh around 11am Thursday, said DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Masudur Rahman.

He is a student of BUET's civil engineering department and the deputy legal affairs secretary to the university's BCL unit.

Amit is the resident of Sher-e-Bangla Residential Hall's room 2011 where second year electrical engineering student Abrar was bludgeoned to death on Oct 6.

He had asked about Abrar to one of his classmates over messenger before calling him into the room. A screenshot of that conversation was later posted to Facebook.

Police arrested 10 people over the incident after reviewing footage from a security camera in the hall on Oct 7. Three others were later arrested.

They were all among the 13 accused in the case started by Abrar's father with Chawkbazar police. But questions were raised by aggrieved BUET students over the omission of Amit as a suspect in the case.

Asked about the matter, an official of the Detective Branch of Police had said Amit left for his village home on Oct 2.

But student protesters demanding justice for Abrar believe Amit went into hiding after the killing. Police had 'purposely' left his name out of the case dossier.

Abrar’s body was found on the staircase of Sher-e-Bangla Hall early on Sunday morning.

His classmates alleged that BCL men beat him to death suspecting his links to Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami -- a matter that also came up in the Chhatra League's probe into the incident.

The BCL subsequently expelled 11 leaders and activists of the organisation but Amit again was not among them.