A court here on Monday accepted the charge sheet against 25 accused and issued arrest warrant against four fugitive ones in Bangladesh University of Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad killing case.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Kaiserrul Islam passed the order.

The court ordered the concerned police stations to submit report by December 3 if the four fugitives were arrested or not.  

On November 13, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) pressed charges against 25 people in Abrar Fahad killing case.

According to the charge-sheet, 11 of the accused were directly involved in beating Abrar at room No-2011 of Sher-e-Bangla Hall of Buet while the rest 14 were indirectly involved in the incident.

Sixteen of the nineteen FIR-named accused were arrested by police while three others -- Jisan, Tamim and Murshed --remained absconding.

Meanwhile, names of six other accused came to light during investigation; five of them were arrested while another one identified as Mustafa Rafi was on the run.

Among the arrestees, eight made their confessional statements before the CMM court while many others confessed to police to their involvement in the incident.

Abrar Fahad, 21, a second-year student of electrical and electronic engineering of Buet, was beaten to death reportedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders at Sher-e-Bangla Hall of the university.

He was found dead on the staircase of the hall in the early hours of October 7 after he was taken to the room No-2011 around 8pm on October 6 and beaten mercilessly.

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered  a split as a group of its leaders on Monday announced a seven-member coordination committee dropping its President Oli Ahmad.

Party’s former Joint Secretary General Shahdat Hossain Selim came up with the announcement at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club.

Ex-Whip of Parliament and LDP presidium member Abdul Karim Abbasi has been made President of the new committee while Selim its member secretary.

“Now it’s not possible to do politics with Oli Ahmed. That’s why we’ve formed a seven-member coordination committee led by Abdul Karim Abbasi. I’v been made its member secretary,” said Selim.

He said the coordination committee will work out the next course of action through discussions with party leaders and activists.

On October 9 last, Oli Ahmed formed a 203-member new committee of LDP dropping Abbasi and Selim.

Aabbsi was the presidium member while Selim joint secretary general in the party’s previous committee.

On October 26, 2006, Oli left BNP and formed LDP together with then Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury.

However, B Chowdhury quit LDP within a year and revived his party BDB following a conflict with Oli.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her nine-year old son from their house at Sonaikandi village in Doulatpur upazila on Monday.

The deceased were identified as Sanowra Khatun, 49, and her son Raj, 9 of the area.

Jamirul Islam Babu, local union parishad chairman, said unidentified miscreants strangled divorcee Sanowra and her minor boy to death sometime at night.

Being informed by locals, police recovered the bodies from separate rooms of the house at 10 am on Monday, he added.

S M Arifur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Doulatpur Police Station, said he visited the spot.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Panbari bordering area of Sreebardi upazila here  early Monday.

The deceased was identified as Ukil Mia, 19, son of Banga Suruj of Meghadol village in the upazila.

Khandakar Abdul Hai, subedar of Karnajhora Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) camp, Ukil and Sumon went to the border area for grazing cattle and when they entered the Indian territory around 5am the BSF troops opened fire on them, leaving them injured.

The duo ran into Bangladeshi territory and fell down in Panbari area.  

When local people rescued them Ukil died.

Khandakar Abdul Hai said they recovered the body and handed over it to police while Sumon was admitted to Sreebardi Upazila Hospital.

BGB and BSF will sit in a flag meeting over the incident, he added.

A suspected leader of an outlawed party was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Battola area in Harinakundu municipality area  early Monday.

The deceased was identified as Badsha Sheikh, 50, son of Helal Uddin of Jora Pukuria village in the upazila and a member of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP -- Janajuddha faction).

Md Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Harinakundu Police Station, said tipped off that Badsha was attending a clandestine meeting with his followers in the area a patrol team of police raided the area around 1:30am.

Sensing the presence of law enforcers, Badsha and his followers opened fire at police, forcing them to fire back in self-defence.

After the gunfight, police recovered the body of Badsha from the spot while others managed to escape the scene, the OC added. The body was taken to Jhenidah Sadar Hospital for autopsy.

A pistol, four rounds bullet and two daggers were recovered from the spot.

There were seven cases, including two under the Arms Act, against Badsha, the OC added.

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