The police have found no militant link to the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam Lilon.
According to the charge sheet of the murder case, the RU teacher was killed over his personal conflict with the university’s administrative official Nasrin Akhter Reshma.
Detective Branch Inspector Rezaus Sadiq confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune about the filing of the charge sheet on Thursday, though he had submitted to the court it on November 30.
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The police have formally charged 11 people, including BNP's youth wing Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal leader Anwar Hossain Ujjal and Reshma, who has already made confessional statement.
Reshma's husband, also former vice-president of the RU unit of Chhatra Dal Abdus Samad Pintu, has also been charged over the murder.
According to RAB, Pintu wanted the sociology department professor killed because he allegedly “misbehaved” with his wife.
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Earlier in November, 2014, a little known extremist outfit has claimed responsibility for the murder on a Facebook community page named Ansar al Islam Bangladesh 2.
However, the investigators in the case also trashed this claim terming the Facebook post “irrelevant.”
Lilon, the social scientist was hacked outside his house in the Chauddapai area of Rajshahi city on November 15, 2014 and succumbed to his injuries in hospital some hours later.
A case was filed in this connection on November 16.
On November 23, the police arrested Pintu and five others. Later, the law enforcers also arrested Reshma and she gave her confessional statement before a Rajshahi court.