Four officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) visited the site where Bangladeshi born American writer Avijit Roy was hacked to death. Members of the detective branch (DB) of Bangladesh police including deputy police commissioner Krishna Pada Roy accompanied the FBI team.

The FBI officials visited the murder spot on Friday at about 1:30pm. They conducted inspection and took photographs of the crime scene and adjacent areas.

The team arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Avijit Roy was killed and his wife Rafida Ahmed Banya injured seriously as unidentified criminals stabbed them near TSC on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday (Feb 26) night.

Avijit and Rafida, an expatriate couple living in the USA, returned home a few days back as his two books were published on the occasion of Amar Ekushey Book Fair.

On the next day, FBI talked with the law enforcers and family of the deceased writer expressing their interest in investigating the killing.

The government decided to positively respond to the US offer to engage the FBI in unearthing the motive and real culprits behind the murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy. The official announcement, however, came three days later as foreign minister A H Mahmud Ali on behalf of government appreciated and welcomed FBI’s interest in investigating Avijit’s killing.

The local law enforcers failed to achieve any mentionable development in the case except for Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on 2 March arrested Avijit murder suspect Shafiur Rahman Farabi in the capital’s Jatrabari area.

Later, Farabi was handed over to the Detective Branch (DB). RAB claimed that Farabi confessed that he had threatened Avijit with murder.

 On 3 March, a Dhaka court sent Farabi to police custody for 10 days and allowed the DB to interrogate him in the custody. 

Avijit’s wife was sent to the United States for treatment. The US Embassy in Dhaka has taken care of all treatment facilities of Rafida Ahmed Banya.