Deputy Law Affairs Secretary of Buet Chhatra League Amit Saha has been detained for alleged involvement with the murder of Abrar Fahad.
He was detained from Dhaka's Sabujbagh area around 11am on Thursday.
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DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter.
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Abrar, a second year student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the university, was beaten to death by some leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Buet unit inside the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall in the early hours of Monday.
Some Chhatra League leaders have been accused of beating him to death for his alleged involvement with Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami.
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Abrar's father filed a murder case against 19 people at Chawkbazar police station on Monday evening. As of Thursday,16 people have been detained in the case.