Ayat murder: Accused Abir’s parents put on 3-day remand
A Chattogram court has put the parents of the prime accused in the much-talked-about baby girl Ayat murder case, Abir Ali, on a three-day remand.
Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Oliullah gave the order yesterday when the Police Bureau of Investigation produced parents Azharul Islam and Aleya Begum in court and sought a seven-day remand, plaintiff's lawyer Selim Ullah Chowdhury told the media.
Earlier, on Monday, police detained Abir's parents and his sister from their home in, Bandartila of the port city for interrogation but they all were later shown arrested in the case.
In the early hours of 25 November, the PBI arrested Abir for the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Alina Islam Ayat, ten days after she went missing.
Illias Khan, PBI inspector in Chattogram, said Abir Ali, a former tenant of the victim's family, abducted the girl on 15 November for ransom on her way to a mosque where she was learning Arabic in the Bandartila area.
"Ali strangled the girl to death and later dismembered the body after taking her to a residence on Akmal Ali Road in the city. He subsequently dumped the body wrapped in two bags on a beach in the city's Kattali area," the PBI officer said, citing the confession of the prime accused upon arrest.
The victim's father, Sohel Rana, lodged a general diary at the local police station after she went missing. The general diary later turned into a murder case.
