Accused put on 2-day remand over passer-by’s death in shooting

News Desk :
A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted two days remand to Maruf Billah Himel, arrested over the death of a 52-year-old lawyer, who was killed during an indiscriminate firing by a group of miscreants in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area.

Himel was produced in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sheikh Sadi where the investigating officer of the case, Sub-Inspector BM Rana of Tejgaon Shilpanchal police station, applied to put him on a 10-day remand. On the other hand, the accused applied for bail.

After the hearing of both parties, the court granted him a two-day remand.

Earlier, Tejgaon Shilpanchal police station  Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mazharul Islam said that he was arrested from Old Dhaka on Monday night. He said: “Hopefully, the rest of the miscreants will also be arrested.”

A group of miscreants opened fire indiscriminately at the private car of a top criminal around 10pm in the Tejgaon industrial area of the capital on September 18.

A bullet struck Bhuban Chandra Shil in the head while he was crossing the area on his motorcycle.

He was returning to his residence at Arambagh in Motijheel from his office in Gulshan.

Bhuban was rescued and whisked off to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, and subsequently transferred to Dhanmondi’s Popular Hospital. He later died on Monday.