A Sylhet court on Monday granted police 5 days to interrogate a police constable in a case filed for shooting a photo-journalist to death during the student-led mass uprising in July.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Rezaul Karim confirmed 抖阴精品 about the court order against the constable Ujjal Sinha and said that a team of Police Bureau of Investigation arrested the accused from Dhaka on Sunday night.
鈥楥onstable Ujjal Sinha was working under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He was detained with the permission of the higher authorities.鈥� the SMP commissioner said in the afternoon, adding that the constable is an accused in the ATM Torab murder case.
The court sources said that the investigation officer in the case produced the arrested police constable before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Sylhet at noon with a prayer for a 7-day remand for him.
The additional metropolitan magistrate Abdul Momen heard the prayer and granted 5 days to interrogate the accused in police custody, the sources said.
On July 19, a regional daily鈥檚 photo-journalist ATM Turab was shot to death allegedly by the SMP officer Md Sadek Dastagir during a clash between the student and police at Zindabazar in the Sylhet city.
Turab鈥檚 elder brother Abul Ahsan Md Azraf had filed a murder case with the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Sylhet on August 19 against 18 named people, including the former home minister Assaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and about 250 unidentified people.