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Khulna Editor Murder

10 suspects held, Balu laid to rest

Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Khulna police yesterday arrested 10 people on suspicion of having links to the murder of Press Club President Humayun Kabir Balu.
The arrested arc Manik 25, Ismail 18, Abdul Hye 22, Ferozc 18, Monirul 18, Jamal 25, Rabiul Gazi 18, Bashir Howladcr 20, Afzal 18 and Saidul 27. Of them, four were identified as peanut vendors, four as rickshawpullers and the others as wanderers.
When asked, Officer-in-Charge Mosharaf Hossain said they have taken the arrestees into custody for questioning to extract possible leads to the killing.
Meanwhile, Sub Inspector of
Khulna Police Station Maruf Hossain has filed two separate first" information reports (FIR) but named none as the accused.
Replying to a query, acting Police Commissioner Sajjad Ali said he was hoping for a significant breakthrough in the investigation that would lead to tracking down the real killers of Humayun Kabir Balu.
Slain editor of Dainik Janmabhumi Humayun Kabir Balu was laid to rest at Basupara graveyard after Zohr prayer yesterday.
His first namaz-e-janaja was held at Shahid Hadis Park at 11:00am. Hundreds of people including Information Minister Shamsul Islam, City Mayor Shaikh Tayebur Rahman, Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Abdur razzak MP, Central Organising Secretary of AL Abdul Mannan, Talukdar Abdul Khaleque MP, Panchanon Biswas MP, Mian Golam Parwar MP, former whip Mostafa Rashidi Shuja, City BNP Secretary Nazrul Islam Manju, City AL Secretary Mizanur Rahman Mizan and JP (E) leader SM Babor Ali attended the janaja.
The second namaz-e-janaja was held at Iqbalnagar Mosque Ground after Zohr prayer and was also attended by a large number of people. Journalists including presidents and secretaries of all press clubs and both factions of journalists' union of southwestern zone and Barisal attended the namaj-e-janaja after paying their homage to the fellow journalist.
A guard of honour was given to Balu, also a freedom fighter, at Shahid Hadis Park before laying him to eternal rest at Besupara right beside his father late Imam Ali Sardar's grave.
Top officials of civil and police administrations were present in the funeral rites all along. The coffin was brought to the Press Club at 8:00am from his paternal residence at Iqbalnagar Mosque Lane. Scores of mourners including leaders of all the political parties, socio-cultural organisations and NGOs lined the press club premises,where Balu lay in state,to pay their last respect to the deceased.
Journalists wore black badges while black flags were hoisted at Press Club and all local newspaper offices as part of the seven-day programme declared earlier to demonstrate against the brutal murder. Tomorrow a daylong hartal will be observed here and on June 30 journalists will break their pens as a gesture of protest at 10:30 am at Picture Palace Cinema Hall.
Local journalists, dejected with the law enforcers' role in probing many other journalist killings including that of Manik Saha, unanimously decided not to seek justice from police.