Nazim Uddin Samad, a law student of Jagannath University, was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants at Ekrampur intersection of Laxmibazar area when he was returning to his residence on April 6, 2016. 

A case was filed with Sutrapur Police Station over the incident and later the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police was assigned to investigate the case. 

After looking into the incident, police found involvement of Ansar al-Islam and pressed charges against 9 member of the militant organization under the Anti-Terrorism Act on August 18.

According to the CTTC sources, the militants planned to assassinate Nazim Uddin for his controversial writing on the blogs. 

On the fateful day, Nazim was hacked to death as per a plot made by Major (expelled) Syed Ziaul Haqe, chief of the militant organization’s military wing. 

A total of 12 people were accused in the murder case.  On August 18, Police pressed charges against nine of them - four arrested and five absconding. Bafflingly, the remaining three could not be accused due to lack of records.  

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The arrestees are Md Rashidun Nabi Bhuiyan, 28; Mozammel Hussain alias Saymon, 25; Md Arafat Rahman, 24; and Sheikh Abdullah, 27.

They all gave confessional statements before the court. 

The absconding accused are - Syed Ziaul Haque alias Major Zia (expelled Major),  Wali Ullah alias Oli, Sabbirul Haque Chowdhury alias Kanik, Maulana Junaid Ahmed alias Junaid and Akram Hossain.