Two residents of Amin Bazaar were detained by the police on Saturday morning in connection with the lynching of six students on July 18.
The arrestees, Sanwar Hossain, 29, and Mohammad Selim, 26, of Poshchim Para, were apprehended at Baradeshi in Amin Bazaar during a drive, said Savar thana's station inspector (investigation), Matiar Rahman.
Sub-inspector Anwar Hossain of the same thana filed a murder case, accusing five to six hundred unidentified villagers of killing the six students.
'The persons involved in the killing have already been identified. We don't know their whereabouts but we are hunting for them. Hopefully, they will be tracked down soon,' said Matiur Rahman,
Over 200 policemen, led by additional superintendent Sheikh Rafique-ul-Islam, who is the member secretary of the 4-member body formed to investigate the murders, began the drive at 3:00am and continued it for the next four hours.
'A list of over 50 criminals of the area has been prepared, based on information obtained by detectives. The two arrestees are on that list,' said Matiar Rahman, and added that their names would be included in the murder case.
However Sanwar, one
of the arrestees, claimed
he runs a tea-stall alongside the Dhaka-Aricha highway and is not involved in any criminal activities.
'The police arrested me when I came to open my stall around 6:30am,' said Sanwar. 'I heard the announcement of the planned robbery on the night of the incident, but I didn't go to the spot.'
Selim said he drives a bus on the Saturia-Balia route.
'The police arrested me from my house early in the morning. I didn't even go out of my house on the night of the incident,' he added.
The process to hand over the case to the Criminal Investigation Department is at the final stage, said the police.
Several hundred students of Tejgaon College formed a human chain in front of the college at around 11:00am, demanding punishment of the killers of their fellow student Tipu Sultan, who along with his five friends was beaten to death by a mob.
The five others students are Towhidur Rahman Palash, Kamruzzaman Kanto and Ibrahim Khalil of Bangla College, Shams Rahim Shamam of
Maple Leaf International School and Sitaf Jabi Munif of the Bangladesh University of Business and Technology.
A local trader, Abdul Malek, filed a robbery case against Al Amin, the lone survivor of the lynching. Malek also alleged that the six dead students were robbers.
In his case statement Malek claimed that the youths killed by the
mob were robbers, and
four of them had extorted Tk 5,000 from him earlier that night.
Soruce : New Age
