Mahmuda Khanam Mitu
Police were investigating as to why police officer Babul Akhter’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu left their house so early to drop her son for the school bus on the day she was gunned down, reports United News of Bangladesh.
‘We came to know after talking to all, including Babul Akhter, that the school bus comes around 7:15am every day and Mitu used to leave the house at 7am to drop her son at the GEC intersection for the school bus. We’re looking into why she set out before 6:30am on the fateful day,’ said Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operations) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Devdas Bhattacharya.
While talking to reporters, the police officer also said they seized a microbus, believed to have been used by the backup force, during Mitu’s murder, as it was seen in CCTV footage leaving the spot just after the incident.
He said they were interrogating the microbus driver, Jane Alam, hailing from Salimpur in Sitakunda of Chittagong district.
Devdas also said they were looking into all the aspects, including militants’ link, in connection with the murder.
Meanwhile, former Shibir activist Abu Nasar Gunnu, 42, who was arrested on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in the killing of Mitu, was sent to jail on Thursday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Quader passed the order after police produced them before his court seeking a 10-day remand for him. The court also fixed Sunday for hearing the remand petition.
The Detective Branch of police arrested Nasar from Farhadabad in Hathazari on Wednesday.
On Sunday, unidentified miscreants gunned down Mitu at the city’s GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son, Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus to Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Source: New Age
