MEMARI/BONGAON: A 35-year-old jobless engineer from West Bengal, Humayun Kabir, killed his parents at their home in Memari in East Burdwan district, and then travelled to Bongaon near India-Bangladesh border, where he stabbed and injured four teachers and staffers at an orphanage-madrasa, before being arrested on Wednesday, reports Mohammad Asif & Sanjib Chakraborty.Initial probe revealed that Kabir was radicalised and was extensively browsing jihadi literature. Divorced last year, he worked with an MNC in Noida, but lost his job five months ago and has been staying with his parents since then.Police suspect he may have landed in Bongaon in an attempt to flee to Bangladesh. He attacked the madrasa teachers and staff members after they refused to answer his questions related to Islam and jihad.Soon after his arrest, a mob stormed the Bongaon police station and demanded that the accused be handed over to them. Two police personnel were injured in the mob attack, North 24 Parganas SP Dinesh Kumar said, adding that 10 people had been arrested for rioting and attacking cops.Kabir was remanded in police custody for three days by a Bongaon court. Special public prosecutor Samir Das told the court that police needed time to investigate his “extremist links”.He is believed to have murdered his parents, Musfatizur Rahman and Mumtaj Parveen, as they did not agree with his radical ideology and were trying to reform him. The knife used by Kabir was purchased from an e-commerce platform.
