Riazul Hasan, 50, has been sent to jail after a remand in the case filed over the murder of Billal Hossain, former convener of the Ramna police station unit of Swechchhasebak Dal.
Police produced him before Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Monday after his five-day remand ended. The investigating officer then sought his detention in jail until the investigation was complete. After a hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Manjurul Islam ordered him sent to jail.
Earlier, on June 10, Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zakir Hossain had granted his five-day remand.
According to the case statement, Billal Hossain ran a business at Arafat Market in the Ramna area. He had a long-running dispute with Didarul Islam Babu and several others over the collection of extortion money from local traders. On the evening of June 8, at about 7:30 p.m., Didarul Islam Babu called Billal Hossain behind Arafat Market on the pretext of an arbitration. The accused, who had positioned themselves there in advance, surrounded him and began beating him indiscriminately. At one point, Didarul Islam Babu and his associates struck him with iron rods, a cricket stump and sharp weapons.
The case statement also says that, at one point during the attack, Didarul Islam Babu struck Billal Hossain in the chest with a sharp weapon. He was seriously injured and collapsed. Local people rescued him and took him first to Islami Bank Hospital and then to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Doctors declared him dead at 9:45 p.m. while he was undergoing treatment.
Over the incident, Billal Hossain’s wife, Achia Khatun, filed a murder case at Ramna police station on June 9. The case names 21 people, including Didarul Islam Babu, and another seven or eight unidentified people have been made accused.
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