The Detective Branch (DB) of police has detained a roommate of slain BUET second year student Abrar Fahad who was beaten to death allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League’s BUET unit leaders.
Mizan has been detained around 12pm on Thursday (Oct 10) from room no 1011 of the university’s Sher e Bangla Hall, said police.
DB sources said, Mizan, a student of Water Resource and Engineering Department, arrested for his alleged involvement to Abrar killing.
Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was found dead in the stairway of the Sher-e-Bangla dormitory in the early hours of Monday (Oct 7).
He was beaten to death allegedly by the university unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders for his Facebook status regarding the instruments signed between India and Bangladesh and for his alleged involvement with Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing.
Quoting the students of the dormitory, police said that he was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday (Oct 6).
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 father filed a murder case against 19 people with Chawkbazar police station on Monday evening and police have made 15 arrests over the matter so far.
Bangladesh Chhatra League later expelled 11 of its members permanently from the organization for their reported involvement in the killing.
The incident sparked nationwide protests with protesters demanding justice for Abrar and capital punishment for the killers.
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