Jobayed’s student alerted ‘someone killed him’ over Messenger, JnU student testifies

Two individuals have testified in the murder case of Jagannath University (JnU) student Jobayed Hossain: Saikat Hossain, a JnU student and junior to Jobayed on campus, and Wahidur Rahman, a physician at Salauddin Specialised Hospital and the uncle of Jobayed’s student.

On Wednesday, Saikat told the court that he had been in occasional contact with Jobayed’s student, known only as Barsha.

She had obtained his number from Jobayed, he said, and the two would exchange greetings on WhatsApp. She later sent him a friend request on Facebook, but they had no further communication after that.

According to Saikat, around 6pm on Oct 19, while he was on campus, Barsha texted him on Facebook Messenger asking: “Bhaiya, where are you?” Saikat replied that he was at the university.

“She then asked if I had his [Jobayed] mother’s number,” he said. “I asked why, what had happened? She said she needed the number. When I asked whether something had happened to him, she replied, ‘Someone has killed him, it seems.’

“When I asked what she meant by ‘killed’, Barsha said he had been murdered.”

Wahidur Rahman also provided testimony, though details of his statement were not disclosed in court proceedings at the time.