A Dhaka court on Monday fixed November 29 to submit probe report in a case filed over the murders of Awami League leader Zahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afran Prity in the city’s North Shahjahanpur area on March 24.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury fixed the new date as the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) failed to submit the report.
The matter has been confirmed from the general registration branch of the concerned police station of the court.
Earlier, the court fixed October 17 for report submission.
On the night of March 24, Awami League politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw, were killed in a firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital at Shahjahanpur.
Tipu was a former general secretary of the Awami League Motijheel committee and Prity was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured in the firing.
The following day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder.
On March 27, police arrested Akash, 34, the prime accused in the double murder case, from Bogra.
On March 31, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detectives arrested Arfanullah conducting a drive in the city’s Kamalapur area.
On June 9, Sumon Shikdar Musa, the mastermind of Tipu murder, was brought back home from Oman.
According to the DB police, Musa went to Dubai on March 12 after hiring one Shamim Molla to kill AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu. Later, he fled to Oman.
Following interrogation, police came to know that Musa was the mastermind of the murder and Arfan, Shamim and Manik were involved in the killing.
Shamim, who directly took part in the murder, fled to Bhutan after the murder.