Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Abul Hossain, prime accused in cases filed over burning the body of a man after lynching him in Lalmonirhat, from Kuril Biswa Road in Dhaka early Saturday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police's deputy police commissioner Walid Hossain confirmed his arrest news on Saturday morning.
Tipped-off, a DB police team from the Mirpur Division took position in the area early Saturday morning and nabbed Abul Hossain just after he got down from a bus.
Later, he was handed over to Lalmonirhat police.
So far, a total of 21 people have been arrested in connection with the incident.
On Thursday, four persons, including the khadem of a mosque, were placed on a three-day remand in the second phase in connection with the three cases.
On October 29, Shahidun Nabi Jewel, 50, along with 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 Jame 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 muezzin 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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