One accused remanded again

A Sylhet court yesterday placed an accused in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case on a seven-day remand.

The accused, Abul Khair, is a student of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust).

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Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Shahidul Karim passed the order after police produced Khair before the court with a 15-day remand prayer.

Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death by a group of masked men in Sylhet city on May 12.

Earlier, Khair was arrested from Sylhet on September 2 and placed on a seven-day remand.

Earlier, Mannan, a student of English department of Sust and another accused in the case, confessed that he, Khair, and three others stabbed Ananta to death for his write-ups on Islam, said Mirza Abdullahel Baqui, special superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department.