Amit, who resides in the dorm where Abrar was fatally beaten, was arrested in the capital’s Sabujbagh area while Toha was picked up from Gazipur’s Mawna on Thursday. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sarafuzzaman Ansari issued the remand order on Friday after police sought 10 days' custody to question each of them. Amit is a student of civil engineering at BUET and the deputy legal affairs secretary to the university's BCL unit. Meanwhile, Toha, a second-year mechanical engineering student and a resident of the Sher-e-Bangla Hall, is the 11th suspect named in the case. The law enforcers have arrested 17 people in connection with the murder of Abrar so far, 13 of whom are accused in the case.

Source: bd News24 October 11, 2019 10:09 UTC