A Dhaka court yesterday placed three people on four-day remand in a case filed over the murder of Bangla daily Banik Barta employee Jahangir Alam in the capital.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jahangir Hossain passed the order after Sub-Inspector Abdul Jalil, also investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court seeking 10-day remand.
Opposing the remand plea, defence counsel filed bail petitions which were rejected after hearing.
The remanded are Raihan Sarwar, Fahim Khan and Nazmul Islam Rakib.
Meanwhile, admitting involvement in the killing, another accused SM Faisal, who is a cousin of the victim, gave confessional statement before the magistrate yesterday.
Faisal said that he had killed Jahangir following a dispute over business affairs and kept the body inside the suitcase, court sources said. After recording his statement, the court sent him to jail.
On Friday, police recovered the decomposed body of Jahangir, who was assistant manager of Banik Barta’s advertisement section, from a mess in the capital’s Khilkhet area.
His body was kept in a suitcase at a mess, where Jahangir’s cousin Faisal resided.
