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AZAD ATTACK

10 days gone, investigators still clueless

Staff Correspondent
Investigators are still clueless about the motive for February 27 deadly machete attack on writer Humayun Azad near Bangla Academy even 10 days into the incident that critically injured his head, jaw and shoulders.
Immediately after the attack, Azad's family pointed an accusing finger at some fundamentalist quarters who had threatened the versatile author of over 50 books. But the investigators, firstly Ramna police and later the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), are yet to get any lead on the affair.
"I have no information to disclose to the media at the moment," said CID inspector Kazi Abdul Malek yesterday. "I have some information that I am verifying. I don't want to say anything further right now."
He also declined to reply when asked if he had derived any hints about identity of the assailants or their motive from the information available with him.
The police have so far recovered a machete, arrested Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Abu Abbas Bhuiyan and Tablig Jamaat follower Golam Mostafa alias Mostafa Mahbub.
Ramna police arrested Abbas, joint secretary of BCL's Sir AF Rahman Hall unit of Dhaka University, on suspicion on February 28 and quizzed him on a five-day remand. He was sent to jail on March 2.
After the case was transferred to them on March 1, the CID investigators arrested Mostafa from Moghbazar in the capital. He was sent to jail the following day.
Police produced an eight-year-old boy, Suman alias Babu, and a woman, Meer Jahan, before the court, who said the writer had gossiped with five youths on a bench in the Suhrawardy Udyan for about an hour before leaving the bench to wave a rickshaw. Two
youths who followed him started hitting him with machetes while he was walking toward a rickshaw.
Investigation officer Malek said he was waiting to speak with the writer. "My task will become easy once I talk with Dr Azad."
"I have contacted the CMH (Combined Military Hospital) authorities, where Dr Azad is undergoing treatment in a VIP cabin, for permission to talk to him, but the authorities have refused me for the fourth day today," Malek said yesterday.
Azad's condition was improving yesterday, said Azad's relatives who saw him in the morning and evening.
"Doctors have suggested physiotherapy for him so that the limbs are not paralysed," said Mouli Azad, the daughter. "When we saw him in the evening, we helped him to walk a few steps."
A medical bulletin released through the Inter Services Public Relations at 11:00am yesterday said Azad's condition has further improved. He is conscious, oriented with time and space and can communicate verbally, the bulletin further claimed.
"He can sit and walk with assistance. He is getting liquid food orally. His overall condition was improving but further intensive care is required," the bulletin said quoting a review by a medical board comprising specialists of the Armed Forces.