Police have arrested four leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League to interrogate them over the murder of Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
They are: Mehedy Hasan Russel, Muhtasim Fuad, Anik Sarker and Meftahul Islam Zion, reports bdnews24.com.
They have been taken into police custody for interrogation, Chawkbazar Police Station OC Sohrab Hossain said on Monday afternoon. Anik and Zion were detained after video footage revealed their links, he added.
Abrar was bludgeoned with blunt objects, said Sohel Mahmud, head of forensic department at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after an autopsy.
“There were multiple injury marks on his body and internal bleeding caused his death,” he said.
Classmates of Abrar claimed that BCL men beat him to death suspecting his involvement with Islami Chhatra Shibir. His death has triggered protests on the BUET and Dhaka University campuses.
Abrar, a second-year student of electrical and electronic engineering, was found dead in the stairway in the early hours of Monday.
A resident of Sher-e-Bangla Hall, Abrar was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday, said police, quoting the students of the hall. Later, his body was found on the first-floor stairway of the hall at 2am.
Police officials visited the Room 2011 of the dormitory where Abrar was allegedly beaten and other rooms and collected evidence, said Dhaka Metropolitan Additional Police Commissioner Krishna Pada Roy.
“Whoever the criminal is will be brought to justice. We’ll find all of them.”