Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested the prime accused in the murder case of Savar teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker from Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district.
Ashraful Ahsan Zitu, a 10th grader at Haji Yunus Ali School and College at Ashulia in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka, was apprehended on Wednesday evening, a RAB official confirmed to the Business Post.
Earlier, police arrested his father Uzzal, also an accused in the lawsuit, from Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district on Tuesday night.
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On Wednesday, the court of Dhaka Judicial Magistrate Sheikh Muzahidul Islam placed him on a five-day remand in the case.
Students and teachers of the college alleged that the prime accused killed Utpal, head of the disciplinary committee of the college, in a pre-planned way.
“Utpal sir had caught the student (prime accused) with a girl inside a classroom and informed the family of the girl about the matter, which had created anger in him. That’s the reason why the student beat up Utpal sir to death on the sports day,” said a student of the college.
According to the college authorities, no CCTV footage of the crime was found as the cameras recorded nothing at that moment due to power outage.
The college authorities suspect that the boy had disconnected the power supply before killing Utpal.
Utpal Sarker, 35, son of Ajit Sarker of Engeldani village under Sirajganj’s Ullapara police station, had been serving as a teacher of Haji Yunus Ali School and College for almost ten years.
