OC Rafiq on 4-day remand

Metropolitan Magistrate Abdur Rouf Khan issued the order when the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced the suspended OC before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court, Dhaka under tight security.

On October 19, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kazi Abdus Sabur submitted a prayer to the CMM's Court for a five-day remand of the accused.

The defence lawyers submitted a petition for cancelling the remand prayer and said their client was falsely implicated in the case as part of conspiracy to harass him.

Opposing the petition for cancellation of the remand prayer, the prosecution said a gang of criminals killed Momin following the direction of OC Rafiq.

The accused needs to be quizzed to find out vital clues about the killing and the whereabouts of his other accomplices, the prosecution added.

After hearing the two sides, the court granted four-day remand for the accused OC.

Rafiqul Islam was sent to jail on October 16 after he surrendered to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka seeking ad-interim bail.

Kamrul Islam Momin, 22, a student of Dhaka Commerce College, was gunned down in front of his Ibrahimpur house on September 13.

Momin's father Abdur Razzak filed a murder case with the Kafrul Police Station accusing OC Rafiq and 27 others while police have so far arrested 13 people.

Hasibul Haq Johny, one of the accused, made a confessional statement before a magistrate on September 22.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police closed the accused OC on September 15 and suspended him on October 2 for not reporting to the Rajarbagh Police Lines.