DB takes Feni madrasa teacher to Dhaka

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police picked up a madrasa teacher in Feni's Fulgazi upazila Thursday, police said.

Though an officer of the Feni district police said he came to know that Mufti Zahidul Hasan Maruf, 24, was picked up in connection with the murder of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, detectives in Dhaka, however, said the man was taken to Dhaka to help detectives identify an accused.

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Mahbub Alam, a deputy commissioner of DMP's DB, said he was neither arrested in Dipan's murder nor any other case. "He was taken to Dhaka to know about an accused of a case," he said, adding they would free him after getting information.

The DB officer, however, did not disclose anything about the case and the accused.

Mufti Habib Ullah, father of the detainee and resident of Uttar Tarakusa village of Fulgazi, said Maruf was an assistant teacher at Jamia Arabia Ahsanul Ulum Madrasa and Orphanage.

He said some plainclothes men picked up his son from his village home in early Tuesday, reported a correspondent from Feni.

Maruf later spoke to his mother by phone from DB's Minto Road office in the capital, he said.

The father claimed that his son had never been to Dhaka and was not involved in politics.