Sylhet: A Sylhet court on Wednesday granted police to question five accused for seven days in a case filed over the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.

The accused  are Bangladeshi-born UK national Tawhidul Islam, Aminul Mollik, Idris and Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman.

Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate 2 court Judge S M Anwarul Haque passed the order after investigation officer of the case Arman Ali, an inspector of CID Organised Crime, produced them before the court seeking a 15-day for questioning them.

Earlier, on 8 June, a CID team arrested Idris, a photojournalist of the Daily Sabuj, published in Sylhet and son of Ilias Ali of Fatehgarh village under Airport Police Station, from his residence.

On 28 August, CID police arrested Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman from East Faljur village in Kanaighat upazila.

On 18 August, members of RAB 3 arrested Tawhidul Islam and Aminul Mollik from the road adjoining Star Kabab in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on the morning of 12 May.

On 13 May, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed the case against four people with Airport Police Station.

Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the Mukto-Mona blog, founded by blogger Avijit Roy—who had been murdered two and a half months ago after he came home from the USA.