BSS
  27 May 2025, 18:46

One gives confessional statement in DU Shammo murder case

Dhaka University student Shahriar Alam Shammo- Photo : Collected

 
 
DHAKA, May 27, 2025 (BSS) - An accused arrested in the case lodged over the 
murder of Dhaka University student Shahriar Alam Shammo has given a 
confessional statement today.
  
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana recorded the statement of the 
accused, Nahid Hasan Papel, under section 164 as police produced him before 
the court and pleaded to record his confessional statement.
 
Meanwhile, the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate 
Sanaullah placed two other accused, Rabbi and Mehedi Hasan, on a five-day 
remand each in the case.
 
Police arrested in separate drives arrested Rabbi from Munshiganj and Mehedi 
from the capital on May 26.
 
Shammo was a final year student of the Institute of Education and Research 
(IER) and literature and publication secretary of the Sir A F Rahman Hall 
unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).
 
He was stabbed to death at Suhrawardy Udyan on May 13 last. Shariful Islam, 
brother of Shammo, filed the case with the Shahbagh Police Station in 
connection with the murder on May 14, a day after the incident.