Police have arrested another accused in the case over the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad.
Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has detained Majedul Islam from Sylhet's Shah Kiron area around 4am on Thursday (Oct 11), said DMP's Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman.
21-year-old Majedul, a second-year student of materials and metallurgical engineering in the university, is an activist of the Bangladesh Chhatra League's Sher-e-Bangla Hall unit.
So far, 17 arrests have been made in connection to the murder of the BUET student.
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 reportedly by the university 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 BCL later expelled 11 of its members permanently from the organization.
The incident sparked nationwide protests with protesters demanding justice for Abrar and capital punishment for the killers.