An aide of the lone attacker of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was placed on a seven-day remand today, a day after he was arrested in Sylhet yesterday.

Shohag Miah, 27, an associate of Foyzur Rahman, was arrested from Kalibari Residential Area Sunday early morning, our Sylhet correspondent reports quoting Shafiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP).

The arrestee was produced before the Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which granted a seven-day remand for him, Assistant Commissioner (Prosecution) of SMP Amullo Bhushan Chowdhury said.

A Sylhet court on March 18 recorded the confessional statement of the lone attacker, Foyzur, in a case filed for attacking Prof Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust).

The OC, also investigation officer of the case, said that Shohag Miah was arrested after getting confirmation of his connection with Foyzur.

Hailing from Umednagar village of Dirai upazila in Sunamganj, Shohag is a clothes trader, the OC said.

Foyzur is also from the same upazila’s Kaliarkapan village. Earlier, Foyzur’s neighbours and police confirmed that Foyzur used to sell clothes in local bazar.

On March 3, Foyzur, a suspected Islamist, attacked Prof Iqbal with a knife at the Mukto Mancha on Sust campus.

Caught by students immediately, Foyzur was then beaten up and handed over to the Rapid Action Battalion. On March 8, after a five-day stay at hospital, he was placed on remand for 10 days.

His father Atiqur Rahman, mother Minara Begum and uncle Fozlur Rahman are also in jail after completing different periods of remand. Foyzur’s brother Enamul Haque, who went fugitive for 5 days after the attack, has also in an 8-day remand.

They have all been shown arrested in the case filed with the station.