A Dhaka court yesterday placed model Faria Mahbub Piyasha on a two-day remand in a case filed over the rape and murder of a college student at a flat in the capital’s Gulshan.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nivana Khair Jesi passed the order after Inspector Moktar Md Ashraful Islam of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), brought Piyasha to the court seeking a remand of seven days, court sources said.

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Earlier in the day, she was shown on papers as arrested in the case after the office submitted an application in this regard.

In the remand application, Ashraful, who is investigating the case, said police found her involvement with assisting other co-accused in killing the victim after rape.

Piyasha introduced the victim to Bashundhara Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir — the prime accused in the case — and knew about the rape and murder of the victim from the very beginning, the IO said.

So, she needs to be placed in remand in order for police to get vital information about the incident, the IO said in the remand application.

Piyasha’s lawyer submitted a petition seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand application, saying Piyasha was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass her.

The magistrate placed her on a two-day remand.

On September 29, the High Court refused to grant anticipatory bail to Anvir in the case.

The HC, however, granted six weeks’ anticipatory bail to Anvir’s wife Sabrina Sayem as there was no specific allegation against her. Sabrina has been asked to surrender to the trial court concerned after expiry of her bail.

After police recovered the body of the 21-year-old college student in a Gulshan flat on April 26, her elder sister filed a case with Gulshan Police Station against Anvir on charge of abetting her death by suicide.

On July 19, Abul Hasan, investigation officer of that case and also Gulshan Police Station’s officer-in-charge, submitted the final report to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.

On August 18, a Dhaka court accepted the final report and relieved Anvir from the case.

However, the college student’s elder sister on September 6 filed another case with the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 of Dhaka accusing Anvir of the rape and murder of the victim.

Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam, chairman of Bashundhara Group, model Piyasha and five others were accused in the case. 



College Student’s Death: Piyasha to be quizzed on PBI remand
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