A Dhaka court has placed each of the two accused in blogger Oyasiqur Rahman murder case on a fresh three-day remand.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque passed the order on Thursday afternoon after the competition of their eight-day remand.
Earlier in the day, IO of the case, DB Inspector Moshiur Rahman produced the suspects--Zikrullah and Ariful--before the court with a five-day remand plea.
During Thursday's hearing, both the suspects neither defended themselves nor appointed any lawyers to stand for them.
On March 31, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan placed them on an eight-day remand after the IO of the case sought 10-day remand for the murder suspects.
During the hearing, Zikrullah told the court: "Although we had our involvement in Oyasiqur murder, we do not know anything about Avijit killing. But, We did not hack him. The person, who directly attacked the blogger[Oyasiqur] fled the scene immediately."
"Oyasiqur was killed for making defamatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad on Facebook."
The secular blogger was hacked to death on Monday morning in Tejgaon, Dhaka.
A travel agency executive, Oyasiqur’s murder was premeditated. Three assailants swooped on Oyasiqur, 27, armed with machetes around 9am on Dipika Mosque Lane of Begunbari, close to Tejgaon Textile Engineering University, when he was going to office in Motijheel.
Zikrullah and Ariful, two madrasa students, were captured by two transgendered persons from the spot immediately after the incident.
Later, Oyasiqur's brother-in-law Monir Hossain Masud filed a case with Tejgaon industrial police station against four persons around 11pm Monday.
The other accused are Masum, and Abu Taher. However, their detail identities could not be ascertained yet.