A Narayanganj court on Monday placed former RAB officer Lieutenant Commander MM Rana on a fresh five-day interrogation in police custody in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case.
Senior judicial magistrate KM Mahiuddin passed the order when Detective Branch (DB) of police inspector Mamunur Rashid Mondal, also investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court on expiration of his second-phase eight-day remand.
In his forwarding, the investigation officer told the court that evidence indicate that Rana was involved in the seven murders, and sought a seven-day remand.
“Important information has already been gleaned during interrogation. He needs to be grilled again for further information.”
After hearing, the court put Rana, former commander of Special Crime Prevention Company of RAB-11, on a five-day interrogation.
Police arrested MM Rana from Dhaka Cantonment area on May 18 in connection with the much-talked-about seven murders. He was placed on a seven-day interrogation on the day.
Later, he was interrogated for eight days on May 25.
Rana was arrested a day after the Narayanganj district police arrested two other wanted former RAB officers — Lieutenant Colonel Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Major Arif Hossain of Bangladesh Army –– from the same area.
Rana is from Bangladesh Navy while Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Arif Hossain are from Bangladesh Army. They were sent on forced retirement following the allegation of their involvement in the abduction and killing of the seven people, including Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam.
Tareque Sayeed and Arif Hossain are now on third-phase five-day remand.
On April 27, Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and his three associates and driver were abducted from Fatullah area in Narayanganj city.
Hours into their abduction, senior lawyer of the Narayanganj District Judge’s Court, Chandan Kumar Sarker, and his driver were abducted while they were going to capital Dhaka.
Three days into their abduction, the bodies of six people, including that of Nazrul and Chandan, were recovered from the Shitalakhya River on April 30.
Besides, the body of Jahangir, the car driver of Nazrul Islam, was recovered from the Shitalakhya on May 1.
Following the seven murders, Shahidul Islam alias Shahid chairman, father-in-law of slain Nazrul Islam, alleged that some RAB men killed Nazrul in exchange for Tk 6 crore from city councillor Nur Hossain and other suspects.
Source: Prothom Alo
