Two individuals have testified in the murder case of Jagannath University (JnU) student Jobayed Hossain: Saikat Hossain, a JnU student and junior to Jobayed on campus, and Wahidur Rahman, a physician at Salauddin Specialised Hospital and the uncle of Jobayed’s student. On Wednesday, Saikat told the court that he had been in occasional contact with Jobayed’s student, known only as Barsha. She had obtained his number from Jobayed, he said, and the two would exchange greetings on WhatsApp. According to Saikat, around 6pm on Oct 19, while he was on campus, Barsha texted him on Facebook Messenger asking: “Bhaiya, where are you?” Saikat replied that he was at the university. “She then asked if I had his [Jobayed] mother’s number,” he said.
