A Dhaka court yesterday placed Shafiur Rahman Farabi, the prime suspect in the murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy, on a fresh four-day remand in a case filed under the ICT Act.
Metropolitan Magistrate Ashok Kumar Dutta passed the order when the Detective Branch of police produced Farabi before his court, seeking a seven-day fresh remand following the completion of a five-day remand in the case.
On March 14, another Dhaka court placed Farabi on the five-day remand for interrogation in the case filed against him with Shahbagh police station.
On March 2, just four days after the murder of Avijit Roy, RAB arrested Farabi, a student of physics at Chittagong University, from the capital’s Jatrabari area for his alleged involvement in the killing.
On February 26, unidentified assailants killed Avijit, 42, and badly injured his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya on the Dhaka University campus as the couple were returning home from the Ekushey Book Fair.