A Netrokona court yesterday placed a youth on a three-day remand in connection with the murder of journalist Lutfuzzaman Fakir Alif in Netrokona’s Durgapur upazila.
Netrokona Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-2 Judge Md Alimul Islam granted the remand for three days after police produced Ashiqur Rahman Prangon, 21, seeking a seven-day remand, confirmed Court Inspector Abdul Momin.
A team of Special Response Battalion (SRB-14) arrested Prangon of Durgapur municipality in the Shaheed Minar area on Tuesday night.
Durgapur Police Station OC Khondokar Shaker Ahmed said Prangon is the nephew of a man locally known as “Shooter Shamim”, who faces at least 30 cases, including three murder cases, filed with the police station.
Alif was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Telenjia area of Uttrail Bazar on the Shyamganj-Birishiri road in Durgapur on the night of October 15.
Alif was the Netrokona correspondent of private television channel Ruposhi Bangla. He also operated a Facebook page named “Detective Article”, where he published investigative reports on border smuggling, criminal activities and various irregularities.