‘Just called him out from room’, claims Abrar murder accused Sadat
ASM Nazmus Sadat, one of the accused in the Abrar Fahad murder case, on Wednesday claimed that he called the BUET student to room No-2011 of Sher-e-Bangla Hall after being instructed by senior BCL leaders.
He also claimed that he did not beat Abrar. “I just called him out from his room as I was instructed by senior brothers (Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders of BUET unit),” he said.
Asked by reporters whether he wanted to say anything before the remand hearing with a court, the FIR-named accused said the BCL leaders beat Fahad in a group and he was at the room till midnight. “I returned to my room around 12 midnight.”
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan placed Sadat, a student of Mechanical Engineering department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), on a five-day remand.
On October 15, detectives arrested him from Katlabazar in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur district while trying to flee the country.
Abrar Fahad, 21, a second year student of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), was found dead at his dormitory Sher-e-Bangla Hall in the early hours of October 7.
The dormitory students alleged that Fahad was beaten to death by the university unit Chhatra League men at one stage of questioning him on suspicion of Shibir following his facebook post over recent several deals with India.
Fahad's father in the evening on that day lodged a case with Chawkbazar Police Station against 19 BUET students.