Dhaka: Investigators, assigned for handling the murder case of blogger Avijit Roy, on Monday hoped that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would soon send reports of DNA tests.

‘We came to know that the FBI has already completed DNA tests of the 11 samples, which were given following a court permission last year. After some administrative process, the FBI will send the test results soon,’ Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Md Monirul Islam, told a news briefing at the DMP media centre on Monday. Monirul, who was a joint commissioner of the DB, was promoted to the post of deputy inspector general of police on Sunday.  

There has been no headway into the killing case over last one year as the suspects, who are in jail, did not give any confessional statement admitting their involvement.

‘We came to know that the FBI found some elements of other people in the DNA tests. After getting the reports, we will examine those samples to see whether they match with the detained suspects’ samples,’ he said.

‘If we found any match, we will again interrogate that suspect,’ he said.  

The four-member team of FBI came to Bangladesh on 3 March last year to help the Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies investigate the Avijit murder case. They visited different places, including the killing site and return after collecting 11 samples for DNA tests.

Avijit, son of noted physicist Ajoy Roy and founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was hacked to death, and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya was injured as unidentified killers attacked them near TSC on the Dhaka University Campus on 26 February.  

Avijit and Rafida, an expatriate couple living in the US, returned home a few days back of the killing incident as Avijit's two books were published on the occasion of the Ekushey Book Fair.

Investigators have pointed at the radical groups for the killing.