Probe report in blogger Niloy murder due on Oct 13

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09 September, 2019, 01:05 pm
Last modified: 09 September, 2019, 01:57 pm
The new date is set as the police's Detective Branch failed to submit the report

A Dhaka court has set October 13 for the submission of probe report in the case filed over murder of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Asheq Imam set the new date as the police's Detective Branch failed to submit the report today.

Miscreants hacked Niloy to death in his house in capital's Goran area on August 7, 2015.

Later, Niloy's wife Ashamoni filed a murder case with Khilgaon police station against four unidentified miscreants.

Law enforcement agencies later arrested seven members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in connection with the incident.

The arrestees are Mufti A Gaffar, Mortuza Foysal Sabbir, Qawsar Hossain Sarder, Kamal Hossain Sarder, Sad Al Nahid, Masum Rana, and Torikul Islam.

Of the seven, the last two are currently out on bail.

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