SP wife MURDER case
Police still not sure about militant link
IO changed; 2 remanded
Staff Reporter
Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday said police were not yet sure whether there was any militant link to the murder of Mahamuda Khanam Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akhter. While addressing a rally at Dampara Police Lines in Chittagong, the police chief however said that militants wont get any scope to weaken the morale of the police force. They wont be able to do that, he said, urging the people to come up with a strong resistance against militants. He also asserted that militants will be eliminated from the country with the help of people. Police cant contain militancy alone, he added. There might be local and foreign conspiracies in the recent incidents of secret killing, said the IGP.
In a latest development, the investigation officer of the Mitu murder case was changed yesterday. Md Kamruzzaman, assistant commissioner (south) of Detective Branch (DB), has been given charge of the case in place of DB Inspector Kazi Rakibuddin following an order of commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police. Deputy Commissioner of DB Muktar Ahmed confirmed the move. The shuffle comes after allegations were raised against Inspector Kazi Rakibuddin that he might implicate shibir activist Abu Naser in the case taking Tk30 lakh in bribe from Nasars Rival group. On Wednesday, police arrested Abu Naser, 42, a former activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir and a khadem (caretaker) of a shrine in Farhadaband of Hathazari upazila, for his alleged involvement in the killing. Another suspect, Shah Jamal Robin, 28, of Comilla district was arrested on Friday night. A five-member committee led by Shah Md Abdur Rouf, additional deputy commissioner of CMP, was alos formed to expedite the probe into the case. Meanwhile, a Chittagong court yesterday placed Naser and Robin on a seven-day remand each. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Harunur Rashid passed the order when Inspector Rakibuddin, the former IO in the case, produced the duo before the court with a 10-day remand prayer for each. On June 5, unidentified miscreants gunned down Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in the citys GEC intersection while she went there to drop her son, Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus to Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
