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| ATTACKS ON BLOGGERS, PUBLISHERS : No clue, no arrest after a month |
| 2015-11-29 |
| [Bangla New Age] The police have made no headway in the investigation of the murder of secular blogger and publisher, Faisal Arefin Dipan, and attacks on another publisher and two bloggers on the same day, a month into the incident. Families of the victim said they were frustrated with the sluggish pace of the investigation. They said the police had stopped contacting the families since long. On October 31, unknown assailants killed secular blogger and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, who ran Jagriti Prakashany, at his office at Aziz Super Market at Shahbagh. Three hours before the incident, another publisher, Ahmedur Rashid Chowd hury Tutul of 'Suddhaswar', and two other secular bloggers, Tareq Rahim and Sudeep Bhattacharya, widely known as Ranadipam Basu, were hacked at Suddhaswar office in Lalmatia. The Sherlocks said they suspect murderous Moslem groups for carrying out the attacks but neither have the motives for the attacks been established nor have the perpetrators been identified. Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch is investigating the cases after two separate cases were filed with Shahbagh and Mohammadpur cop shoppes. When asked about progress in the investigation, DMP joint commissioner [DB] Monirul Islam said, 'we suspect the involvement of murderous Moslem groups in the incidents, but the actual motive of the attacks have not been determined'. 'We could not arrest anyone and no one has been identified', he said. Monirul said investigations were ongoing looking at 'relevant matters' into the incidents. He said the close circuit camera footage at Aziz Supermarket could not help the Sherlocks as no one could be identified from the footage. There was no CCTV camera at Suddhaswar office at Lalmatia, he said. The slain publisher Faisal's father, Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq, expressed frustration at the slow progress in the investigation. 'What are they [Sherlocks] doing...? Ask them...They did not even contact me since after the burial of Faisal', said Abul Quasem, also professor of Bangla at Dhaka University. The injured, Ahmedur and Sudeep, who were undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, have been released. Tareque Rahim is still at the hospital, but his condition is stable, doctors said. Expressing frustration, Sudeep's brother, Pallab Bhattacharya, told New Age that he did not expect to know from police about the progress into the investigation. 'They [police] have failed to investigate each and every attack on bloggers in the past. We don't think they can arrest the perpetrators in this case'. With the latest attacks, at least five secular bloggers have been killed and four injured in 2015 in similar attacks since the killing of blogger Avijit Roy on Dhaka University campus on February 26. Tutul and Dipan were both close to slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy and had published his books. |
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