Parvez killing: Prime accused on five-day remand

A Dhaka court yesterday placed the prime accused, Meheraj Islam, on a five-day remand in the case filed over the murder of Primeasia University student Jahidul Islam Parvez.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub passed the order after police produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer, said a sub-inspector working in the court.

Law enforcers have so far arrested six accused, three FIR-named ones, in connection with the case.

Of the six arrestees, Mahathir Hasan and Al Kamal Sheikh earlier gave their confessional statements to the magistrates in connection with the killing.

On April 19, 24-year-old Parvez, a third-year student of the university, was stabbed to death in front of the campus in Banani.

The next day, his cousin, Humayun Kabir, filed the case with Banani Police Station, naming eight people — including Sobhan Niyaz Tushar, joint convener of Students Against Discrimination’s Banani thana unit, and Hriday Miazi, joint member secretary of the same unit — and accusing 25-30 unnamed individuals.

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