Death of Fairuz: Accused classmate, teacher remanded

A Comilla court on Monday placed Jagannath University’s (JnU) suspended student Raihan Siddique Amman and teacher Din Islam on a two-day and one-day remand respectively in a case filed over the death of JnU student Fairuz Abontika.

Comilla Judicial Magistrate Court-2 Judge Abu Bakar Siddique passed the order after the accused were produced before the court with prayers for a five and two-day remand respectively, said Kotwali Model police station Officer-in-Charge Md Firoz Hossain.

He said the court also ordered the investigation officer of the case filed to submit a report within seven days.

Abontika, a student of the 2017-18 academic year of the JnU Law Department was found at her Comilla residence after accusing her classmate Amman and teacher Din Islam, who was relieved from the post of assistant proctor of the university, in a Facebook post around 10pm on Friday.

In the Facebook post before committing suicide, Abontika said that her classmate Amman and assistant proctor Din Islam would be responsible for her death.

Hours after her death, a massive protest broke out and continued till Saturday morning, demanding justice for the student.

In the face of the student movement, the university authorities were compelled to relieve the assistant proctor and suspend the student to assuage the movement.

Besides, the university administration formed a four-member probe committee.

On Saturday, the protesting students announced to besiege the vice chancellor’s office on Monday to press home their six-point demand.

Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested the teacher and student from Dhaka on Saturday night.

The DMP handed over the duo to Kotwali police station to take the next action in this connection on Sunday.

DMP Additional Commissioner Dr Kha Mahid Uddin at a press conference on Sunday said they found partial authenticity of their involvement with the death of Abontika during the preliminary investigation.

Source: UNB