JCD leader killing in Sylhet
2 Shibir activists remanded
Staff Correspondent, Sylhet
Two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, arrested in connection with the killing of a JCD leader at Sylhet Government Veterinary College on Tuesday night,were placed on a five-day remand on Thursday.Kotwali police produced the Shibir activists, Zahed and Mofiz, in a court here Thursday afternoon, seeking a 10-day remand. The court granted five days' remand for the two. The JCD activists on Thursday announced a three-day agitation programme from yesterday protesting the killing of their leader Rafiqul Hasan Sohag and gave a 15-day ultimatum to nab the killers. Rafiqul Hasan Sohag,organising secretary of Sylhet Government Veterinary College unit of the JCD, was chopped to death by the armed cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir on the college campus. The agitating JCD men damaged three business establishments, including a shopping mall, owned by the Jamaat-Shibir men Thursday evening. Three separate cases have been lodged with Kotwali Police Station in this connection. Besides, the principal of the Veterinary College filed a murder case with the police station on Thursday and JCD leader Ashraful Bari filed another case accusing 15 Shibir activists of killing Sohag.
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