Shafiul Alam, Cox’s Bazar Correspondent
A Cox’s Bazar court has granted 3-day remand to three more accused in the murder case of Rohingya leader Mohibullah. Cox’s Bazar court police inspector Chandan Kumar Chakraborty informed that, Teknaf Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Tamanna Farah passed the order on Wednesday morning after police produced them before the court seeking a 7-day remand for questioning.

The remanded accused are – Abdus Salam, Ziaur Rahman and Elias. Earlier, accused Salim and Shawkat Ullah were granted three-day remand on Sunday. The three accused were brought to the court from Cox’s Bazar District Jail in a prison van at 10:30 am on Wednesday. The accused were later produced before the judge’s court at 11am.

Inspector Chandan said the investigating officer in the case arrested Abdus Salam and Ziaur Rahman, in the murder case of Rohingya leader Mohibullah last Sunday, was produced in court seeking a seven-day remand for questioning. The court later fixed Wednesday for the remand hearing of the accused. Besides, another accused arrested last Monday. Elias applied to the court for a 7-day remand for questioning. The court fixed Wednesday for the hearing.

It is to be noted that Mohibullah, 46, who led the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, was shot dead at around 8:30pm at a Kutupalong camp office in Cox’s Bazar on 30 September.

He had represented the Rohingya community at the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2019. Mohibullah came to the limelight on 25 August 2019 when a rally organised by the Arakan Rohingya Society, to observe two years of the latest Rohingya exodus from the Rakhine state of Myanmar, drew more than 100,000 people.

A number of human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and Fortify Rights have urged the Bangladesh government to investigate the murder and deliver justice.