5 ABT men remanded

A Sylhet court yesterday placed five members of banned Ansarullah Bangla Team on a seven-day remand each over blogger Ananta killing.

The remanded are Touhidur Rahman, a Bangladeshi-origin UK citizen, Aminul Mallik, Ariful Islam, Zakirul Prokash and Sadeque Ali Mithu.

The court passed the order after Criminal Investigation Department produced them before it with a 15-day remand prayer, said CID Inspector Arman Ali, also investigation officer of the case.

Touhidur employed five ABT members to carry out the killing missions of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta, according to the law enforcers.

Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death by assailants at Subid Bazar in Sylhet city on May 12 and Avijit was hacked to death in front of the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on February 26 this year.