A Dhaka court has given its permission to get the evidence – collected in connection with the Avijit killing – tested in the FBI’s laboratory.
The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Shaha passed the order on Tuesday, responding to the plea of Md Fazlur Rahman, IO of the case.
Earlier in the day, Bangladeshi detectives have filed the plea, seeking court permission to get the evidence – collected in connection with the Avijit killing – tested in the FBI’s laboratory.
Monirul Islam, chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), on Monday said: “The evidence include a severed finger of Avijit’s wife Bonya, two machetes and a bag – all collected from near the TSC roundabout on the Dhaka University campus.”
“In the bag, there were some papers – believed to have been used for wrapping the machetes, a jeans pant and some pills.”
A US citizen and bio-engineer by profession, Avijit Roy was hacked to death and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya critically injured by miscreants still to be identified near the TSC roundabout on February 26.
Bonya was flown to the USA last week for better treatment.
A team from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, better known as the FBI, arrived in Dhaka on March 4 to assist DB – the local investigators.
The FBI agents visited the crime scene on March 6 and retraced Avijit’s footsteps on the day of his murder.
On Sunday, the FBI team went to the office of the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Dhaka and talked to the forensic team who collected the evidence. The agents also inquired about the facilities at CID’s laboratory.
