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Faizul’s parents, uncle put on remand

A Sylhet court on Sunday placed the parents and a uncle of Faizul, who carried out a knife attack on eminent writer and educationalist Professor Dr Zafar Iqbal, on police remand.

Metropolitan Magistrate Haridas Kumar passed the order after investigative officer of the case produced Faizul's father Atiqur Rahman, mother Minara Begum and uncle Fazlur Rahman, before the court, seeking 10-day remand for each of them.

The court granted five-day remand for Atiqur and Fazlur and two-day remand for Minara, reports BSS.

On Thursday, the court granted 10-day remand for Faizul.

Beside, police arrested Faizul's brother Anamul from Gazipur area and seized a mobile phone and a tab of Faizul.

Dr Iqbal, head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department and also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering department at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), came under the knife attack on the university campus in the afternoon on March 3. 

He is now undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka.