A Dhaka court sent expelled Dhaka city (south) Awami League (AL) Organising Secretary Golam Ashraf Talukder to jail after he surrendered before the court in the case filed over the murders of AL leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and Samia Afran Jamal Prity in March 2022.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ashek Imam passed the order on Tuesday (Oct 3).

However, when the accused surrendered before the court through his lawyer and sought bail in the case the prosecution opposed the plea saying that Golam Ashraf is a charge-sheeted accused and another Dhaka court on June 20 issued an arrest warrant against him.

Following both sides' argument, the magistrate scraped the bail petition and ordered to send him to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.

On June 5, Detective Branch (DB) inspector Md Yasin Sikder, also the investigation officer of the case submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.

On the night of March 24, Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home by a rickshaw, were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital.

Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee while Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured in the firing.

The next day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder.

On March 27, police arrested Akash, 34, the prime accused in the double murder case from Bogura district. On March 31, a second suspect was arrested by Dhaka Metropolitan Police detectives from the city’s Kamalapur area.

BDST: 1918 HRS, OCT 3, 2023
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