Police arrest one more over killing of Chhatra League leader Shamim in mob lynching

Police have arrested one other over the killing of Shamim Ahmed alias Shamim Mollah, aged organisational secretary of the JU Chhatra League, at some level of a mob lynching at the campus on 18 September.

The arrestee has been identified as Md Saiful Islam Bhuiyan. He’s a pupil from Batch 52 of the university’s Pharmacy department and a resident of Maulana Bhasani Hall.

Police arrested him at some level of a drive from the capital’s Turag home around 11am the outdated day evening (29 September), acknowledged Abu Bakar Siddique, officer-in-fee of Ashulia police scheme.

With this, two of us had been arrested over Shamim’s killing till now.

Earlier, JU’s Chief Security Officer Shudipta Shahin filed a case with Ashulia police scheme over Shamim’s killing on 19 September.

Saiful has been made the fourth accused in the case, the OC acknowledged.

Currently, merely one particular person is in the aid of bars in connection with the execute. He’s Mahmudul Hasan Raihan, a pupil from the English Division, the third accused in the execute case filed against 11 of us.

He used to be arrested early on 22 September at a relative’s home in the Rajendranagar home of Gazipur, as confirmed by Ashulia police.

On 23 September, Raihan used to be presented before Senior Judicial Justice of the Peace Mohammad Zulhas Uddin in Dhaka, where he agreed to offer a confession in court docket, which used to be therefore recorded before being remanded to penal advanced.

Shamim, who used to be beaten up by the university college students on 18 September, died whereas present process therapy at a Savar Well being facility.

The university college students beat up Shamim for allegedly main an assault on protesting college students at Jahangirnagar University (JU) on the evening of 15 July.

When he used to be later dropped at the proctor’s tell of job, offended college students attacked him as soon as more.

Proctor AKM Rashidul Alam acknowledged that at some level of initial questioning at the proctor’s tell of job, Shamim admitted his involvement in the assault on college students and revealed the names of other accomplices to the police.

He used to be handed over to Ashulia Police Space around 8:30pm, after which police admitted him to Savar Gonoshasthaya Well being facility, where he died whereas receiving therapy.