Police have detained nine leaders of the ruling party student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) over the killing of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad.
All nine of the detainees are part BCL’s BUET unit committee, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner Krishanpad Rai confirmed on Monday (Oct 7).
“They are being questioned,” he said and added that the police was scrutinising the CCTV footage that they recovered.
The detainees are- BCL’s BUET unit General Secretary Mehedi Hassan Rasel, Vice President Mustakim Fuad, Assistant General Secretary Ashiqul Islam Bitu, Deputy Office Secretary Mujtaba Rafid, Deputy Social Welfare Secretary Ifti Mosharraf Shokal, Deputy Law Secretary Amit Shaha, Sports Secretary Sefayetul Islam Jion, Information and Research Secretary Anik Sarker and Library Affairs Secretary Ishtiaq Munshi.
According to the intelligence agencies Ishtiaq Munshi, a student of the Mechanical Department’s 15th batch carried out the killing.
Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was found dead in the stairway in the early hours of Monday.
A resident of Sher-e-Bangla Hall, Abrar was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday, said police, quoting the students of the hall.
Later, his body was found on the first-floor stairway of the hall at 2am on Monday and post mortem reports showed that he was beaten of death.
His killing sparked protests amongst the university students, while his family blamed BCL over the incident.