Dwip placed on 4-day remand

 
A Dhaka court on Saturday remanded Ahmed Shahriar Reza Dwip, a suspect in the murder of former Bangladesh Air Force Flight Lieutenant KM Tahsif Souri, for four days.

During the remand hearing on Saturday, Dwip’s defence lawyers did not seek his bail. Instead, they urged the court to ensure that he was interrogated cautiously in the interest of a fair investigation, saying they had become victims of a “media trial”.

Naval Police Inspector Firoz Uddin of the Tongi outpost sought a seven-day remand for Dwip. Additional Public Prosecutor Azizul Haque Didar argued in favour of the prosecution’s plea, while defence lawyers Monirul Islam and Mutasim Billah represented the accused.

The defence told the court that Dwip and the deceased had known each other for six years and that Dwip had already spent two days in police custody. 

They said they had no objection to his being remanded if necessary to uncover the mystery surrounding the death, provided the interrogation was conducted with caution.

The court subsequently granted a four-day remand for questioning in the interest of the investigation.

Souri’s father, KM Enayetul Karim, filed a murder case against unidentified persons at Uttarkhan Police Station at 1:05am on Friday. Dwip was subsequently shown arrested as a suspect in the case.

In the complaint, the father said his son had left home after receiving a call from Dip at around 6:00pm on October 27. When Sauri failed to return, his mother repeatedly contacted him by phone. He reportedly told her that he would return shortly.

At around 1:35am, a voice message was sent from Sauri’s phone to his mother through Messenger, saying, “I have started for home; I am coming.” However, he did not return.

At around 5:20pm on October 28, police informed the father that his son’s body had been recovered from the Turag River near Rajabari Ghat.

Following preliminary post-mortem procedures at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, police handed over the body to the family on October 29. Sauri was buried at a cemetery in Uttara Sector 12 later that afternoon.