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‘Microbus driver witnessed Mitu murder’
[Dhaka Tribune] Jane Alam, driver of the black microbus which was allegedly used by standby assailants during police officer Babul Akter’s wife murder, witnessed the killing that took place in Chittagong city’s GEC area on Sunday morning, a police brass hat has claimed.Alam, 50, was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! from outside the city on Wednesday night, hours after the police seized the microbus (Chatta Metro Cha-116119). He hails from Jungle Salimpur area of Sitakunda. The microbus was seen in CCTV footage leaving the scene of the crime following the three assailants on a cycle of violence. The bike was found in an abandoned condition from the city on Sunday night. At the CMP Headquarters, Additional Commissioner Debdas Bhattachariya told news hounds that Alam was the owner and driver of the microbus. "We are confirmed that it is the same black microbus which was seen in CCTV footage collected from near the murder spot," he said, adding that the law enforcers were trying to know about the persons staying inside the vehicle during the killing operation. "After primary interrogation, Jane Alam confessed that he was in the spot during the killing mission ... he witnessed the whole incident of murder. We are interrogating the person to glean more information from him. If his involvement is found, he will be arrested in the case," the officer said. About Mitu’s coming out of the house 30 minutes earlier on that day, Debdas said that Mitu used to come out of her house at 7am or 7:05am along with her son to catch the school bus. Other residents of the building too came out at the same time. The bus usually wait at GEC intersection around 7:15am to pick students. "We need to know why Mitu started for the bus stop half an hour ago on that day. The school authorities did not send any SMS on Mitu’s phone regarding early school on Sunday." However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Mitu’s mobile phone has remained missing since the murder, he added. Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Police Bureau of Investigation are jointly investigating the case. Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... a court in Chittagong yesterday sent a former activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... to jail, a day after he was arrested in connection with the gruesome murder. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Kader sent Gunnu to jail after the investigation officer of the murder case produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer, CMP Additional Deputy Commissioner (prosecution) Nirmalendu Bikash Chakrabarty told the Dhaka Tribune. The court directly questioned the IO, Detective Branch Inspector Kazi Rakibuddin, regarding the case. Later the court fixed Sunday for the hearing asking the IO to present all relevant documents of the case. Gunnu, who was arrested on Wednesday from Hathazari, is an attendant of a local shrine. Police said that he is a charge-sheeted accused in an abduction and murder case filed with Satkania police. "He had been arrested in Mitu murder case based on concrete information," Debdas told news hounds. Gunnu’s family and locals refuted his connection with Shibir, and claimed that he had not left the shrine in the last seven days. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-10 |
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