Ex-CU asst proctor remanded over Diaz murder

A court here on Thursday placed former assistant proctor of Chittagong University (CU) Anwar Hossain on a 2-day remand in a case filed over the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL) leader Diaz Irfan Chowdhury.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Shiblu Kumar passed the order after police produced Anwar to the court seeking a five-day remand, said Jasim Uddin, assistant superintendent of Police of Criminal Investigation Department in Chittagong.

On Monday last, a court sent Anwar to jail.

On November 20 last year, the body of Diaz, assistant secretary of the central BCL committee and joint secretary of CU unit BCL, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his bedroom at his family’s rented house in Gate-2 area of Chittagong University.

On November 23 of the year, the Forensic Department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) conducted the 1st postmortem which described the incident as a suicide in its report.

However, his family members rejected the autopsy report, alleging that he had been murdered in a planned way by his rivals following a dispute over tender for the construction of some university buildings.

According to the 2nd autopsy report done by the Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the BCL leader was murdered. The report was published on July 30 last.

Source: unb