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| Publisher Tutul was attacked on instruction of Boro Bhai |
| 2016-06-22 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The owner of Shuddhashar publishing house was attacked on the instruction of one Boro Bhai (big brother). A source in the police requesting not to be named told the Dhaka Tribune that Sumon in his statement under 164 identified the Boro Bhai as Ishtiaq, a sacked official of law enforcement agency, who is now working with the holy warrior outfit. Banned holy warrior outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) member Sumon Hossain Patwari alias Shihab alias Saiful alias Shakib admitted to his involvement in the attack on publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul. Suman divulged the information yesterday during his confessional statement under section 164. Sumon was produced before the court by Detective Branch (DB) of police inspector Bahauddin Ahmed on Tuesday. Bahauddin, also the investigation officer of the publisher attack case after the end of the five-day remand made an appeal to the court to record the statement of the accused under the section 164. Metropolitan Magistrate Ahsan Habib, recording the statement, sent him to jail. Mashruruqure Rahman Khaled, deputy commissioner of the DB police, told the Dhaka Tribune that Sumon admitted to his direct involvement in the murder attempt. "Sumon said that he along with four others launched the attacks and gave some important information on the rest of the attackers but it only can be disclosed after receiving the copy of the statement," he said. DC Khaled further said the drive is on to arrest others involved in the attack. Detectives on June 15, jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Sumon from Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka. Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Police declared Tk18 lakh bounty on the heads of six bully boyz including Sumon. Police arrested him just 25 days into the announcement of the bounty. The court sources said Suman in his statement said that they attacked publisher Tutul as they felt it was their religious obligation to punish those publishing or writing against Islam from different platforms including blogging sites. They had been keeping an eye on Tutul for a month before the attack. They used to stay in different places of the capital during the time of their recce of the Tutul’s working place. Sumon said he joined a private firm after his Higher Secondary School Certificate exam and joined the ABT later. Before taking part in the mission to the attack Sumon had to take almost one and a half months-long training. Hailing from Chandpur district Sumon used to live in Dhaka. On the Foysal Arefin Dipon murder, Sumon said they did not take part in the killing mission. Another ABT member Selim was the coordinator of the killing mission and all the instruction came from Boro Bhai. Earlier on October 31, three bloggers and writers, including Tutul, came under attack in his Shuddhashar publication office in the capital’s Lalmatia area. The other injured are blogger Ranadipam Basu and poet Tareq Rahim. Faisal Arefin Dipan whose publishing house published a book of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy who was hacked to death in the capital’s Aziz Supermarket the same day. |
| Posted by:Fred |