Police officers investigating the machete attack on Madaripur college teacher Ripon Chakrabarti have said Faizullah Fahim who was arrested in connection with the attack is giving confusing information.
Talking to the Prothom Alo, several Madaripur police officers said they could not find the veracity of the most of the information the detectives elicited from Faizullah.
According to Faizullah’s information, police conducted several drives in Dhaka, Barisal and Chapainawabganj but could find no significant clues to take the investigation forward.
Police claimed Faizullah along with two other assailants took part in the attacks.
Even the detectives could get nothing in their drives to nab the two other assailants, which were conducted in accordance with Fahim’s information.
District chief metropolitan magistrate judge Saidur Rahman granted 10 days of remand for Fahim although the police sought for 15 days of remand.
Madaripur sadar police station officer-in-charge Ziaul Morshed claimed Fahim told the detectives that he was involved with banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The police said they conducted an operation with Faizullah in the early hours of Thursday. A 12-strong team conducted the drive at different places in Dhaka along with him but the detective got nothing.
A police officer said they could elicit no significant information about the masterminds of the attack.
“He [Fahim] told the police that the attack was aimed to embarrass the government and he had no personal enmity with the teacher. Even he did not know him. They receive instructions and just carry out the attack following the instructions,” claimed the police officer.
Ripon Chakrabarty, a mathematics lecturer at Madaripur Government Naziumuddin College, was chopped by some assailants at his residence in the district town on Wednesday afternoon.
A group of three miscreants knocked at the door of Ripon’s residence at College Road behind the college. No sooner had the college teacher opened the door than the attackers started chopping him.
Locals caught Faizullah while fleeing the scene after the attack and handed him over to police, according to the police.
Later, Madaripur sadar police station sub-inspector Ayub Ali filed an attempt-to-murder case accusing six in the case.
Ayub Ali told the Prothom Alo that Golam Faizullah, 19, has been made the prime accused in the case and in accordance with his confession, five others-Salman Taksin alias Abul Hossain alias Salim, 19, Shahriar Hasan alias Palash, 22, Jahin, 23, Raihan, 24, and Mesbah, 24, on Friday.
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