‘Foyzur a self-radicalised militant’

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammad Javed Patwary on Monday said the attackers of professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal would be brought to book.

“We strongly condemn the attack on professor Zafar Iqbal. We assure you that the attackers will be brought to justice,” he said while addressing a concert against drug and terrorism at Jagannath University (JnU) in the capital, reports BSS.

Zafar Iqbal, a noted science fiction writer and a teacher of computer science and engineering department of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was stabbed on 3 March.

A young man, Foyzur Rahman, attacked him as he was sitting on the stage of a celebration programme, ‘Robo-5,’ of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department at Mukta Mancha of the university around 5:40pm.

Describing professor Iqbal as a member of the police force as his father was a policeman, the IGP said, “We have detained family members of the attacker and an investigation has already started.”

“As of now, we know that the detainee was a self-radicalised militant,” he said.

Chaired by JnU vice chancellor Mizanur Rahman, the programme was also addressed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah.