COURT CORRESPONDENT

Ashraful Islam Jitu, the key accused in the college teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker murder case, yesterday confessed to a magistrate that he beat his teacher with a cricket stump.

“I was aggrieved as the teacher warned me for relationship with a girl on the college campus. Moreover, the teacher often rebuked me for various reasons,” Jitu, a 10 grader of Haji Yunus Ali School and College in Savar’s Ashulia, said in his confessional statement.

Dhaka’s Senior Judicial Magistrate Rajib Hasan recorded his statement after investigation officer Emdadul Haque, a sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, produced Jitu at his chamber, said court sources.

After the statement was recorded, Jitu was sent back to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.

According to his birth registration, Jitu is 19.

In his statement, Jitu said a few days before the incident, the teacher warned him for his relationship with the girl.

Quoting Jitu, the court sources said to impress his female friend, he planned to assault the teacher and brought a cricket stump to the school. He hit the teacher with the stamp when he was standing at a corner of the playground during a cricket match.

Meanwhile, Jitu’s father Mohammad Uzzal on Tuesday told another Dhaka magistrate that his son beat the teacher to death as he was aggrieved over “disciplinary actions against him”.