Police filed a case against 20 people including two death row convicts in publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, hours after the latter were snatched from a Dhaka Court lock-up on Sunday.
The case was lodged in the afternoon at the capital's Kotwali police station, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khondaker Golam Faruq.
The convicts are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran, who are also the members of banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam.
They had been sentenced to death in the Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case.
Police earlier announced Tk 10 lakh for information on each of them.
“The convicts sprayed something on the eyes of two policemen and escaped while they were being taken to the court. We’re searching for them in the nearby areas. This is the first time something like this has happened in the country,” said Harun or-Rashid, Chief of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)..
Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in the city on October 31, 2015.
A case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station the following day and later the case was transferred to Detective Branch.
