Actor Siddique remanded for three days in July murder case, silence in industry

Staff Correspondent

A court has granted a three-day remand to theatre actor Siddiqur Rahman in connection with the killing of furniture shop employee Parvez Bepari in the July-August militant attacks in Gulshan.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman passed the order after the hearing on Wednesday. Siddique was produced in court from jail. Later, he was taken to the court docket under police guard.

Meanwhile, the general public has reacted strongly on social media to such a case and remand. Many have protested, calling an actor involved in a false case. However, silence has been observed in the industry. There has been no response from media stars on this.

Muhammad Shamsuddoha Suman was present for the state in Siddiqur Rahman’s hearing today. He presented arguments in favor of remand. On the other hand, the accused requested the remand to be canceled and bail applied. After hearing the statements of both parties, the court rejected the bail and ordered remand.

Earlier, on August 24, the case’s investigation officer, Gulshan Police Station Sub-Inspector Samiul Islam, applied for a 10-day remand of the accused.

In the remand application, the investigating officer mentioned, “This accused very cleverly arranged this incident in front of Subastu Nagar Valley in Shahjadpur to provide money and deter the anti-discrimination student crowd.”

He further said that the accused is accused number 223 of the complaint and the incident took place under his leadership. A proper investigation of the case requires extensive interrogation, arrest of the absconding accused, identification and arrest of the financiers and planners of the incident, collection of information about the leaders, and remand for recovery of the weapons used.

According to the case, furniture employee Parvez Bepari participated with friends in front of Subastu Nagar Valley under Gulshan police station on July 19 last year.

After Friday prayers, he was injured by bullets fired by the accused and was rushed to Dhaka Medical College (DMCH) Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

In this incident, on July 2 of this year, Parvez’s father Md. Sabuj filed a murder case with Gulshan Police Station.