Raid Farabi’s Sylhet house
Ten days after the killing of blogger-writer Avijt Roy, the investigators are yet to know who actually killed Avijt.
However, on the basis of their probe and interrogation of arrested Shafiur Rahman Farabi, prime suspect in the Avijit murder, they believe that an extremist group was behind the gruesome killing.
“It’s an act of a fanatic organisation,” said Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, while briefing the media on the investigation at the DMP media centre yesterday.
He could not specify the name of the organisation, but said it may be Ansarullah Bangla Team and Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). “There are also supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Bangladesh. Any one of them has done the job.”
Meanwhile, detectives raided the house of Farabi in Sylhet city early yesterday and seized a laptop, a desktop computer and some papers.
With the assistance of Sylhet Kotwali police, a three-member team of Detective Branch of police from Dhaka conducted the drive in his house at Munshipara.
The visiting US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team met the Criminal Investigation Department officials yesterday and talked about the evidence collected from the crime scene.
“Preliminary, the FBI officials expressed satisfaction about the way the investigation is going on,” claimed Monirul, adding that the FBI officials might stay for a few more days for helping out with the probe.
On February 26, the Bangladesh-born US citizen was hacked to death by unknown assailants on Dhaka University campus. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya was seriously injured in the attack.
Farabi, who had issued repeated death threats to Avijit, was arrested in the capital’s Jatrabari on March 2. Known in the social media and blogsphere for his vitriolic campaigns against progressive and free-thinking bloggers, Farabi is the key suspect in the Avijit killing.
Farabi, who is now on a 10-day remand, has denied his involvement in the killing. But he admitted issuing death threats to Avijit and believed his killing was justified.
The investigators also say that they are yet to find any link of Farabi with the murder.
Source: The Daily Star