Saleh Noman with Sarwar Azam Manik
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) took former Teknaf police Officer-in-Charge Pradeep Kumar Das and two others into their custody for remand over the killing of retired army officer Major Sinha Md Rashed Khan on Tuesday.
Mokammel Hossain, Cox's Bazar District Jail Superintendent, said, a RAB team went to the jail on Tuesday noon and took the three accused into their custody.
The RAB has also arrested three members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) in connection with the killing of Major Sinha murder case. A total of 13 people have so far been arrested in this incident.
The three arrested are APBn Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Shahjahan, Constables Rajib and Abdullah. On the day of the incident, all three were on duty at the check post.
The court granted three-day remand to three arrested APBn members. On the night of July 31, Sinha was shot dead by police at the Shamlapur check post on his way back to the Nilima Resort in the Himchhari area of Cox's Bazar on Marine Drive in the Marishbunia hills of Teknaf. On August 5, Sinha’s sister Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous filed a case with the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court of Teknaf against nine policemen, including Pradeep and Liakat. The judge granted the plaintiff's application and hander over the responsibility of investigating the case to RAB.
When the three surrendered to the Cox's Bazar magistrate’s court, the judge remanded them in custody for seven days on August 6. Later on, RAB moved a petition for taking the suspects into custody.
Meanwhile, a complaint was filed in the Cox's Bazar court against 29 people, including OC Pradeep, for allegedly killing a young man named Saddam Hussein hailing from Teknaf.
The plaintiff in the case, Saddam Hussein's mother Gulceher, alleged that police had demanded a bribe of Tk 10 lakh after his two sons were arrested. She handed over Tk 5 lakh, but his son Saddam was killed for not paying another 5 lakh on 6 July.
Judge Helaluddin accepted the petition filed by the plaintiff as a criminal case and directed the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of police to investigate the case.
Mashiur Rahman, in-charge of Whykong Police outpost in Teknaf upazila, has been made the number one accused in the plaintiff's complaint while Pradeep Kumar has been made the number two accused.
