Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered the Detective Branch (DB) of Police to get a DNA test of the Bangladeshi origin US writer and blogger Avijit Roy murder evidence by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The court also asked the director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital to take an initiative to conduct the DNA test of Avijit’s body by the forensic department head of the hospital.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha passed the order on Tuesday  in response to two petitions submitted by DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman, who is also the investigation officer of the case.
Unknown assailants hacked and brutally killed the Bangladeshi born American citizen and seriously injured his blogger wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya near Dhaka University campus on February 26. Both were leaving the Amar Ekushey Book Fair when the assailants pounced on them.
The next day, US Department of State Spokesperson Jen Psaki in a statement said Washington was ready to assist the investigation into the brutal killing, if sought.
Later on March 5, a four-member team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrived in Dhaka to help the investigation.
Rafida Ahmed Bonya, the wife of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, has told her father-in-law that she could easily identify the killers if she saw them again.
Bonya, who is also a US citizen like her husband, recently went back to the US for better treatment.
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Police are yet to identify or arrest the assassins who killed Avijit in an attack that was strikingly similar to the attacks that killed legendary writer Humyun Azad and blogger and pro-liberation war activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.
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Investigators suspect religious fanatics murdered Avijit for his writing and blogging against communalism and religious superstition.
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