Sylhet: A court has granted a seven-day remand to SI Akbar Bhuiyan, who was sacked in connection with the murder of Raihan Ahmed, 34, who was killed in police torture.

Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Court Judge Abul Kashem granted his remand on Tuesday (November 10th).

Earlier at around 1.30 pm, Awlad Hossain, an investigating officer of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), produced him in court under tight security and applied for a seven-day remand.

Raihan Ahmed died at the hospital the next day after being tortured by police in Sylhet on the night of October 11. His wife Tani filed a case with the Sylhet Metropolitan Police's Kotwali Police Station.

The Police Bureau of Investigation is in charge of investigating the case. The main accused in the case, SI Akbar, who was dismissed by the police, had been absconding since October 13.

The people of Sylhet were outraged by the incident of torturing and killing Raihan for only 10 thousand rupees. The movement started in the streets. Police arrested him on Monday (November 9th), 28 days after the incident, from the Dona border in Kanaighat. In the evening, he was brought to the office of the district police superintendent under tight security. Thousands of people gathered there at the time to demand his execution.

Sylhet Superintendent of Police Farid Uddin claimed in a press conference at around 6.15 pm that they had alerted a special team of police there on the basis of intelligence information that they might have fled to India. They arrested him.

Earlier, the PBI arrested ASI Ashek Elahi, Constable Titu Chandra Das, Constable Harunur Rashid and police source Saidul Sheikh in the case.