Detective Branch (DB) of police of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested Assistant Proctor Din Islam and a student Amman Siddique of Jagannath University (JnU) in connection with the suicide of the university’s law student Fairuz Abontika.
DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman confirmed the matter on Saturday night.
He said that these two people were kept under surveillance after the death of the university student. They are now in police custody.
However, the DMP Commissioner did not say where and when the detectives took them into their custody.
They will be handed over to the Comilla police, said the commissioner.
Earlier, a case was filed at Comilla Kotwali Model Police Station at night following a complaint lodged by Abantika's mother Tahmina Shabnam, said Firoz Hossain, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Teacher Din Islam, who was named by Jagannath University student Fairuz Sadaf Abontika as one of two persons responsible for her death before committing suicide on Friday, tried to explain his position by releasing a statement on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the protesting students of the university gave a 12-hour ultimatum to arrest the accused people.
Fairuz Abontika, a student of the 2017-18 academic year of Jagannath University (JnU) Law Department, hanged herself at her Comilla residence after accusing her classmate Amman and the assistant proctor of the university in a Facebook post around 10pm on Friday.
Meanwhile, the university administration relieved Assistant Proctor Din Islam from his duty and suspended classmate Amman Siddique.
Besides, the university administration has formed a four-member probe committee.
In her Facebook post before committing suicide, Fairuz Abontika said that her classmate Amman Siddique and Assistant Proctor Din Islam would be responsible for her suicide.
“If I ever die by suicide, my classmate Amman Siddiqui and Assistant Proctor Din Islam, who supported him, will be solely responsible for my death. I complained to the proctor's office that Amman was threatening me offline and also online but I did not get any benefit. Din Islam scares me in many ways for the sake of Amman. He said that expelling me is very easy for him. I know I will not get any justice here,” she wrote.
