Police yesterday denied the allegation that they were trying to save MP’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony arrested on charge of double murder in the capital’s Dilu Road area.
Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner of DB of police, said this to reporters at his office in the capital’s Minto Road.
Monirul, also the chief of DB police, said it was a clueless incident. Police had to work hard to find the clue to the double murder and they finally were able to arrest Rony.
“So, the allegation of giving mileage to Bakhtiar, son of reserved seat lawmaker Pinu Khan, is not correct,” says Monirul, also the spokesperson of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
He further said they were attaching the same priority to the case as they give it to other criminal cases. “There is no chance of looking at someone’s social identity. All steps have been taken as per the law.”
The gun from which the shots were reportedly fired was sent to the CID forensic lab for examination, he said.
Autorickshaw driver Yakub Ali and rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim were killed when shots were fired from a black SUV in Eskaton area on April 14.
DB Chief Monirul said car driver Imran in his confessional statement said Rony was drunk on the day of incident.
There were two more persons present in the SUV at the time. Detectives have already got their identities and steps have also been taken to arrest them, he said.
Rony, was sent to jail, after investigation officer of the murder case, Deepok Kumar Dash, also a sub-inspector of DB police, presented him before the court on Saturday after a four-day remand. The court fixed January 16 for the next hearing.
Earlier on April 13, Yakub Sikder, driver of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw of the daily Janakantha, and Abdul Halim, a rickshaw-puller, received bullet injuries when Rony fired at people indiscriminately in Dilu Road on that night.
Halim died on April 15 while Yakub succumbed to his injuries on April 23 while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Halim’s mother Monowara Begum filed the case with Ramna police station on April 15. It was later shifted to the Detective Branch of police on May 24.
Detectives arrested Rony from his Elephant Road residence on May 31. On June 1, a Dhaka court granted the DB police four days to interrogate Rony. After he pretended to be sick, interrogation finally began on June 9.