15 remanded over death of BUET student

A Dhaka court has placed 15 friends of BUET student Sunny, whose body was recovered from the Padma River on Friday, on a three-day remand each in a case filed over the death.

Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Kazi Ashrafuzzaman passed the order on Saturday.

Those remanded are — Shariful Hossain, Shakil Ahmed, Sezan Ahmed, Md Rubel, Md Sajib, Md Nuruzzaman, Md Nasir, Md Maruf, Md Ashraful Alam, Jahangir Hossain Liton, Md Noman, Md Jahid, ATM Shahrier Momin, Maruful Haque, and Roukanuzzaman alias Jitu.

Earlier, sub-inspector Shamsul Alam, investigating officer of the case, produced all of the accused before the court and sought a seven-day remand for each.

The body of Tariquzzaman Sunny, a final-year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) was fished out of the Padma River on Friday, UNB reports.

According to police, Sunny went missing in the Padma river while taking a selfie with his friends at Moinot Ghat in Dhaka’s Dohar upazila on Thursday.

Later, members of the Fire Service fished out his body around 11am on Friday.

On Friday afternoon, Sunny’s elder brother Hasanuzzaman filed a murder case and then police arrested 15 friends of Sunny.