Two confess, two remanded over Rakib killing at Shaheed Minar

A Dhaka court on Wednesday recorded confessional statements of two accused – Golam Rosul Shihab and Sagar Kabir – in the lawsuit involving the murder of college student Rakibul Hasan Rakib near the Central Shaheed Minar.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Kamal Uddin recorded the voluntarily delivered statements and sent them to jail.

Meanwhile, the court also granted a five-day remand for two other accused – Rafin Sheikh and Shahriar Nazim Joy – after police produced them before the court and sought seven-day remands for each.

According to the petitions, the investigation officer requested the remand to uncover the main mystery of the murder, recover the firearms (pistol) and weapons used, and identify other individuals involved in the incident.

In preliminary questioning, Shihab and Sagar admitted their direct involvement in the murder and stated that the incident was carried out under the instructions of top Khulna gangster Salauddin.

On 15 March night, Rakibul Islam Rakib, a 25-year-old second-year graduate student of Sheikh Borhanuddin College, was shot and stabbed to death at the Central Shaheed Minar area. The victim's father, Tarikul Islam Khokon, filed a murder case at Shahbagh Police Station the next day.

According to the case statement, the accused fired shots at Rakib when he arrived at Shaheed Minar on a motorcycle. Later, five–six individuals stabbed him with knives and fled. Rakib was later taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead.