Taqi murder accused Kajol Hawlader gave confessional statement to a Narayanganj court on Sunday under section 164 while two other accused Md Shafayet Hossain Shipon and Mamun Mia were placed on three-day fresh remand.
Narayanganj senior judicial magistrate Haider Ali recorded the confessional statement under section 164, Narayanganj court police inspector Abdur Rashid confirmed.
Abdur Rashid said that the same court also remanded Shafayet and Shipon in the custody of the Rapid Action Battalion custody for three days each as the elite force sought five-day remand for further interrogation.
Plaintiff鈥檚 lawyer Prodip Ghosh said that vast interrogations of those accused were required for ensuring justice for Tanwir Muhammad Taqi.
鈥楳any names have come out in the confessional statement of the accused. If vast interrogations are conducted, many unknown facts of the much-talked about murder case would reveal,鈥� Prodip explained.
The elite force arrested Md Shafayet Hossain Shipon and Mamun Mia from Chasara and Kalibazar area in Narayanganj district on September 8 while Kajol Hawlader from the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area on September 9.
Earlier, RAB produced them before a Narayanganj court and the court placed Shipon and Mamun on six-day remand and Kajol on five-day remand.
Addressing an event on September 7 in Dhaka city, Taqi鈥檚 father Rafiur Rabbi said that two murder suspects, including Sawkat Bhramar, made statements before a court on November 12, 2013, where they alleged that Ajmeri Osman, a son of the late Jatiya Party lawmaker Nasim Osman and nephew of the former Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman planned and executed the murder.
Almost a year after Taqi鈥檚 brutal murder, the draft of a Rapid Action Battalion probe report got leaked in the media, revealing the involvement of 11 people, including Ajmeri Osman, in the killing.
According to the probe findings, Ajmeri not only masterminded the murder of the bright teenage boy in Narayanganj but also directly took part in it.
Directed by him, his accomplices followed Taqi and forcefully took him to his 鈥榯orture centre鈥� at the Winner Fashion on Allama Iqbal Road on March 6, 2013.
Later that night, Ajmeri and his cohorts beat and strangled the 17-year-old boy to death. His body was then put into a sack and taken to Charargop area in Ajmeri鈥檚 car.
On March 7, the killers took the body to Kumudini Jora Khal in a boat and dumped it in the Sitalakhya River between 1:00am and 1:30am.
Taqi鈥檚 body was recovered from the river the next day, according to the findings, reported by various media outlets.
On June 20, 2013, the home ministry handed the case to the RAB upon a High Court order, following an appeal by Rafiur Rabbi.