Detectives in a drive arrested the prime accused in a case over the lynching of a young man for ‘disrespecting Quran’ in Burimari of Lalmonirhat, from Kuril Biswa Road area in the capital early Saturday.
Abul Hossain, 45, the arrestee, has been handed over to Lalmonirhat district police.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Deputy Commissioner Md Walid Hossain confirmed the matter to the media.
Shahidunnabi Jewel, son of Abdul Wazed Mia of Shalban Mistripara in Rangpur district town, and a former librarian of Rangpur Cantonment Public School and College, was beaten to death by mob in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila over some people accusing him of ‘disrespecting the Quran’.
They also burned his body after killing him.
114 people and a few hundred unnamed others were accused in three cases filed over the killing. A three-member probe body was also formed to look into the incident.
