A court in Lalmonirhat has placed four persons including the khadem of a mosque on a three-day remand in the second phase in three cases filed over burning the body of a man after lynching him.
Lalmonirhat Senior Judicial Magistrate-3 Ferdousi Begum on Thursday passed the order.
District DB OC Omar Farooque confirmed the matter.
Those who remanded in the second phase are: Burimari Bazar Central Jam'e Mosque's khadem Jobed Ali,61, Mehedi Hasan Raju,19,Anwar Hossain,55, and Rabiul Islam alias Pichchi Rabiul,40.
Police on Thursday arrested two more persons in this connection.
With these, 23 people have been arrested in connection with the killing. Of them nine have been remanded.
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.
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