3 madrasa students on fresh remand

A Dhaka court yesterday sent three madrasa students on a three-day fresh remand each in a case filed over the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu.

The court passed the order after investigation officer Moshiur Rahman of the detective branch produced the trio before it after completion of their remand for three and five days respectively.

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The trio, Zikurullah, Ariful Islam and Saiful Islam, were yet to get any lawyers to defend themselves. 

Zikurullah and Ariful Islam were remanded for 11 days in two phases while Saiful for five days.

Oyasiqur, 27, son of Tipu Sultan of Ramganj in Laxmipur and a staff of a travel agency in Motijheel, was hacked to death by three cleaver-wielding youths in the capital's Tejgaon on March 30. Zikurullah and Ariful were caught by locals while they were fleeing the spot. They later confessed to the killing.

Saiful was arrested on March 24 in an arms case and later he was shown arrested in the Oyasiqur murder case. 

The motive behind the murder appears to be "ideological differences," police said earlier.

A staunch critic of religious fundamentalism, Oyasiqur was active mostly on Facebook though he used to write in Bangla blogosphere.