Police refuse to file case 16 hours after JCD leader’s murder

More than 16 hours after the stabbed body of Md. Jobayed Hossain, leader of the Jagannath University unit of Chhatra Dal, was recovered from a house in Armanitola, Old Dhaka, no case has been filed at the police station, and no arrests have been made. The family of the deceased attempted to file a case from 1:00 am on Monday (October 19), but as of 8:30 am, they had not been able to register it at Banshal Police Station. According to Jobayed’s family, they wanted to file a case naming a female student, her parents, and two acquaintances, Mahiur Rahman and Md Nafis. However, Officer-in-Charge (OC) Rafiqul Islam refused to accept it. The deceased’s elder brother, Enayet Hossain Soikat, alleged,...