The police on Monday detained three suspects in Sunday鈥檚 murder of Jagannath University student and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader Jobayed Hossain at a house in Old Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Lalbagh zone deputy commissioner Mallick Ahsan Uddin Sami said that the trio was arrested in a special drive in the capital.
He, however, said that the police would give no further information about the detainees for the sake of the investigation.
No case was filed in connection with the murder until 8:15pm on Monday, the police said.
Jobayed鈥檚 elder brother Enayet Hossain Saikat alleged that OC Rafiqul refused to accept the case and suggested them to reduce the number of accused.
Jobayed was stabbed to death while going to give tuition to the female student at a house in the Armanitola area in Old Dhaka.
Talking to reporters, Bangshal police station officer-in-charge Rafiqul Islam said that Jobayed was killed due to a love-related dispute involving his female student and her boyfriend, a student of class XI at a college in Dhaka.
He said that they picked up the girl, a class XII student at a college in the capital, and interrogated her, but she denied her involvement in the murder.
鈥楾he girl had been in a nine-year-long romantic affair with her boyfriend, who is also a neighbour of the girl,鈥� OC Rafiqul said.
He, referring to the information extracted from the girl, said that the boy became angry with and jealous of Jobayed when the girl told her boyfriend that she had developed feelings for Jobayed.
The OC said that the boy and one of his friends, out of jealousy and anger, might have plotted and killed Jobayed.
He clarified that they found no romantic affair between the girl and Jobayed.
The investigators said that the girl had contact with one of Jobayed鈥檚 friends through Facebook.
Jobayed鈥檚 brother Enayet said that OC Rafiqul was delaying accepting their case and told them not to mention the names of the girl鈥檚 parents.
The OC, however, claimed that they were ready to accept the case from the victim鈥檚 family.
Following the murder, fellow students and JCD activists on Sunday night staged a demonstration by setting fire to tires in front of Bangshal police station.
Jahangirnagar University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Monday afternoon demonstrated on the campus, protesting at the murder, JU Correspondent reported.
On May 14, Dhaka University student and JCD leader Shahriar Alam Shammo was stabbed to death by a group of miscreants near Suhrawardy Udyan.
