A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday remanded three accused in police custody for seven days for interrogation in connection with the murder case of Azizur Rahman Musabbir, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s volunteer wing Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam passed the order as the police produced Md Billal, the alleged main coordinator, Abdul Kadir, an alleged associate of the killers and Md Riaz, before the court and pleaded to place each of them on a seven-day remand in the case, reported Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
Meanwhile, another accused, Jinnat, the alleged main shooter, gave a confessional statement before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque.
The Detective Branch of the police on Sunday acknowledged the arrest of the four men, a day after they were detained by the specialised unit of the police following raids at different places in the capital, Manikganj, Mymensingh and Netrakona.
On January 7, Musabbir and Abu Sufian, general secretary of Karwan Bazar Van Association, were shot at about 8:15pm in front of the Ahsanullah Institute of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Centre in Tejturibazar area.
The police and eyewitnesses said that Musabbir and Sufian were walking towards the main road through the alley when two miscreants, who were waiting in a small dark lane in front of the AITVET Centre, opened fire on them before fleeing the scene.
Both Musabbir and Sufian then ran back into the alley and collapsed after going a short distance.
They were taken to BRB Hospital at Panthapath, where Musabbir was declared dead, while Sufian was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
On January 8, Musabbir’s wife Suraiya Begum filed a case with the Tejgaon police against four or five unidentified people in this connection.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s DB chief additional commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam on Sunday said that the DB primarily believed that Musabbir was killed over business disputes.
