A court in Lalmonirhat have remanded five accused in three cases filed over burning the body of a man after lynching him.
Lalmonirhat Senior Judicial Magistrate-3 Ferdousi Begum on Tuesday placed them on a three-day remand each.
District Court Police OC Mohammad Jahangir Alam confirmed the matter.
Earlier, DB inspector Mahmudunnabi, also the investigation officer of the cases, sought five days' remand for each accused who were arrested in the first phase.
Those who remanded are: Ashraful Alam,22, and Bayezid,24, sons of Ismail Hosain, Rafique,20, Masum Ali,35, and Shafiqul Islam,25.
So far, 10 people have been arrested in connection with the killing.
Several hundreds of people have been made accused in three cases filed with Patgram Police Station for burning the body of Shahidun Nabi Jewel after lynching him.
On October 29, Shahidun Nabi Jewel, 50, alongwith his friend Sultan Jobayer went to Burimari from Rangpur to bring some medicines from India as he had been suffering from mental illness. They offered Asr prayer at Burimari Central Jam'e Mosque in the afternoon.
Jewel, 50, was the former librarian at Rangpur Cantonment Public School and College and a former student of the Department of Library Science of Dhaka University.
After the prayer, he was taking off a copy of Holy Quran from the mosque's shelf. Mistakenly, some copies of Quran and Hadith fell on his feet that led to an altercation the muazzin of the mosque. Afterward, some people from nearby area came to the mosque and dragged both Jewel and Jobayer out of the mosque. They confined the duo to a room of a local union parishad building.
A rumour was spread in the evening that two young men were nabbed and detained for desecration of the Holy Quran. Being furious, the angry mob snatched Jewel breaking open the door of the union parishad building and then beat him to death.
Later, the angry mob dragged Jewel's dead body to the Patgram-Burimari highway burnt it to ashes. They also chanted slogans blocking the highway with burning tyres.
Police admitted Jewel's critically injured friend Jobayer to a local hospital.
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