The “attempt to murder” case filed in connection with the attack on Buet student Dwip will be turned into a “murder case,” an official of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court has told the Dhaka Tribune.
Arif Raihan Dwip, who was hacked in his dormitory room four months ago, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday in a city hospital.
Anisur Rahman, deputy commissioner of the criminal intelligence and prosecution department of Dhaka CMM, told this correspondent that the investigation officer (IO) would file a petition with the CMM court today [Thursday] to include section 302 of the Penal Code in the case, originally filed under the Section 304.
Section 302 of the Penal Code deals with murder charges while Section 304 deals with attempt to murder charges.
Inspector of DB Police Jasim Uddin Dewan is the investigation officer in the case. On April 16, DB police arrested Mezbah Uddin, 24, a fourth-year student of civil engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), in connection with the attack on Dwip.
Two days later Mezbah gave a confessional statement before Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque admitting that he had stabbed Dwip on April 9.
In his statement, Mezbah said he stabbed Dwip because he beat up the Imam of the MA Rashid Hall mosque for helping Hefazat-e-Islam’s long march supporters.
After being arrested, Mezbah told journalists in a press briefing at the DB office that killing Dwip was his “divine duty” because he assaulted an Imam.
But in his confessional statement Mezbah claimed that he attacked Dwip in self-defence.
Dwip’s elder brother Reajul Islam filed the attempt to murder case with the Chwakbazar police station on April 9, the day he was attacked.
PM shocked
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the death of BUET student Arif Rayhan Dwip.
In a condolence message on Wednesday, the Prime Minister conveyed her sincere sympathy to the bereaved family members and prayed for the salvation of the deceased.
She urged the people to remain alert so that such incident that claimed the life of Dwip could not happen in the future, PM’s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad said, reports UNB.
