A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate on Thursday granted police to interrogate MA Matin, younger brother of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader MA Quayum, for eight days in remand in connection with the murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella.
Metropolitan magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order after Detective Branch of police produced Matin before the court.
DB police inspector Zeahad Hossain, also the investigation officer, sought 10-day remand under their custody to grill the suspect.
Earlier in the morning, detectives claimed that they arrested MA Matin in Benapole border area on Wednesday night as he was trying to leave the country.
With him, police so far arrested five men in connection with the murder of Italian aid worker.
The name of MA Matin came to surface in the confessional statement of Bhagne Russell, who was arrested along with three others from different areas in the capital earlier on October 26 in connection with the murder, according to a text sent to newsmen by Dhaka Metropolitan Police media centre.
Based on the information gleaned from Bhagne Russell during the primary investigation, a team of detectives conducted a drive in Benapole border area and arrested Matin around 11:30pm as he was trying to leave the country, added the text.
Matin’s family earlier told New Age that he went missing after being forced into a microbus by civil dressed men two weeks ago.
Badda police station officer-in-charge MA Jalil confirmed New Age that a general diary was filed with the police station on October 27 by a family member stating that Quayum’s brother MA Matin went missing on October 20.
Local shop-keepers and other witnesses said that the men who took Quayum’s brother MA Matin that day were not carrying arms and there were no identifying marks on the vehicle.
They, however, assumed that law enforcement officials were involved in the incident.
Law enforcement officials, however, denied that Matin, aged about 50 years, was in their custody.
DMP deputy commissioner (media and public relations) Muntasirul Islam and Rapid Action Battalion legal and media wing director Mufti Mahmud Khan said that they had ‘no information about the arrest of MA Matin.’
Cesare Tavella, 50, Project Manager for PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, was shot to death in the city’s Gulshan diplomatic enclave on September 28.
A case was filed with Gulshan police station on the day. It was transferred to DB police on September 29.
Metropolitan magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order after Detective Branch of police produced Matin before the court.
DB police inspector Zeahad Hossain, also the investigation officer, sought 10-day remand under their custody to grill the suspect.
Earlier in the morning, detectives claimed that they arrested MA Matin in Benapole border area on Wednesday night as he was trying to leave the country.
With him, police so far arrested five men in connection with the murder of Italian aid worker.
The name of MA Matin came to surface in the confessional statement of Bhagne Russell, who was arrested along with three others from different areas in the capital earlier on October 26 in connection with the murder, according to a text sent to newsmen by Dhaka Metropolitan Police media centre.
Based on the information gleaned from Bhagne Russell during the primary investigation, a team of detectives conducted a drive in Benapole border area and arrested Matin around 11:30pm as he was trying to leave the country, added the text.
Matin’s family earlier told New Age that he went missing after being forced into a microbus by civil dressed men two weeks ago.
Badda police station officer-in-charge MA Jalil confirmed New Age that a general diary was filed with the police station on October 27 by a family member stating that Quayum’s brother MA Matin went missing on October 20.
Local shop-keepers and other witnesses said that the men who took Quayum’s brother MA Matin that day were not carrying arms and there were no identifying marks on the vehicle.
They, however, assumed that law enforcement officials were involved in the incident.
Law enforcement officials, however, denied that Matin, aged about 50 years, was in their custody.
DMP deputy commissioner (media and public relations) Muntasirul Islam and Rapid Action Battalion legal and media wing director Mufti Mahmud Khan said that they had ‘no information about the arrest of MA Matin.’
Cesare Tavella, 50, Project Manager for PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, was shot to death in the city’s Gulshan diplomatic enclave on September 28.
A case was filed with Gulshan police station on the day. It was transferred to DB police on September 29.
Source: New Age
