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Ekram Killing

AL activist Belal makes confession

Staff Correspondent
Belal Hossain Patwari, another Awa mi League man, admitted his involvement in the gruesome killing of Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haq at a Feni court yesterday.
Belal, general secretary of AL Anandapur union of Phulgazi, confessed before Senior Judicial Magistrate Khairul Amin under section 164 of the penal code, reports our Feni correspondent.
Khagrachhari police arrested Belal from the district's Matiranga on May 28. He went into hiding following the murder.
Meanwhile, Phulgazi AL observed dawn-to-dusk hartal in the upazila yesterday, demanding speedy trial of the perpetrators.
Locals said the AL activists created barricades on the streets putting logs and burning tyres. Vehicular movements went down to near zero in the area.
Ekram, who was also president of Phulgazi upazila AL, was shot and
burned alive in his car in broad daylight in Feni town on May 20.
Earlier, at least four more men from the ruling party admitted their direct involvement in the killing. Thus, a total of 11 of the 22 arrestees have so far confessed their crimes to the court.
Investigators also took three more arrested AL leaders -- Jihad Chowdhury, the widely suspected mastermind, Feni municipality councillor Abdullahil Mahmud Shiblu, and Jahidul Islam Bhuiyan - on fresh remand yesterday and Sunday.
After the end of an eight-day remand, investigators produced Jihad Chowdhury, joint general secretary of Phulgazi AL, before the court of Khairul Amin, said Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Feni Model Police Station.
The magistrate placed him on a three-day remand for further quizzing, said the OC, also investigation officer of the case.
Shiblu, AL president of ward-5 of Feni municipality, was also produced before the same court on Sunday, while the court extended his remand by five more days.
Earlier, he was on an eight-day remand.
Jahidul was given three days' fresh remand as well.
Police are also looking for local AL leader Jahangir Adel and Ziaul Alam Mister, a bodyguard of Feni-2 AL lawmaker Nizam Hazari, according to sources.
After interrogating some of the arrestees and scrutinising a video footage of the incident, police have found the duo's links with the murder, sources said.
Sources at the Immigration said Feni police have sent a letter to the immigration authority mentioning 26 names following the murder.
In the letter, the police requested immigration authority not to allow those 26 people to leave the country, said a Special Branch (SB) official working with the immigration.
Local BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar is the lone named accused in the case filed by Ekram's brother Rezaul Haq.
Minar was arrested by the Detective Branch of police in the capital's cantonment area on May 27 and later placed on an eight-day remand.