Suspect confesses to murdering Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das

Dhaka: A suspect has confessed in court to murdering Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet district earlier in 2015, a media report said on Thursday. [caption id=“attachment_2419760” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Relatives of deceased Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das react after seeing his body in Sylhet on 12 May, 2015. AFP[/caption] Secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das, who worked for a bank, was the third of the four bloggers hacked to death in 2015. On 12 May, four assailants murdered the blogger in broad daylight in Sylhet’s Subidbazar, bdnews24 reported. Das was an activist of the Ganajagaran Mancha, a forum demanding a ban on religion-based parties and maximum penalty for convicted war criminals. Mannan Yahia gave his confessional statement to Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Anwarul Hakim on Wednesday, a senior police official said. Yahia and his brother Mohaimin Noman were arrested on 28 August. Police said Yahia had been posting on Facebook against bloggers using different profiles. Meanwhile, another man named Abul Khayer was arrested on Wednesday for his involvement in the murder. IANS