Family members of a militant suspect, killed in a “gunfight” with police in Bogra on Monday, have refused to take his body.

The mother and the sister of the suspect, Ripon alias Golam Tareque alias Abu Ibrahim, 29, told Rajshahi police that they did not want to bury him as that would be “an insult to the state”, reports our correspondent there.

Ripon's sister Samina Ferdous told The Daily Star, “I can't take his body as he was involved in militancy. If I do that, it will undermine my country.”

The body was with Bogra police.

She also said Ripon lived alone on the ground floor of his three-storey building at Pathanpara area of Rajshahi city.

Inspector Rezaus Sadik of Detective Branch of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police, also the investigation officer of the Rajshahi University Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee murder case, said several militant suspects stayed in Ripon's house and planned Rezaul's killing.

Ripon, who police said founded a small group of militants called “Ansar Rajshahi”, was killed in a “gunfight” with police early Monday at Bogra's Sherpur upazila.