Investigators have arrested four people for their alleged involvement in the NBR member shooting case at Banani on March 23.
According to the police, they were contract killers and the mastermind is yet to be identified.
Around 7pm on that day, the miscreants shot 56-year-old NBR Member Barrister Jahangir Hossain Howlader when he was out walking near the customs officers’ quarters on Banani Road 2.
A case was filed with Banani police against unidentified persons on March 24.
Police primarily suspected that he might have been mistakenly targeted by the unidentified gunmen. Later, the case was handed over to the DB police.
DB sources said two of the four arrestees had given confessional statements to a Dhaka court and were later sent to jail by the court.
The sources said two of them had come out of jail recently after being imprisoned for more than 10 years.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of DB (south) Md Nurunnabi said the police had arrested the four men who were present during the shooting. Among them, one had shot the NBR member.
However, the ADC could not confirm their identities.
He said there was no reason for them to have shot him. They were just contract killers. The police are now looking for the person who had planned and financed the crime.
The ADC said the police had received information about the mastermind from the four men and continuing their investigation to arrest the criminal.
After Jahangir had received a bullet wound to his waist, surgeons had operated on him and were able to remove the bullet.
Doctors said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) member was out of danger, but was still being monitored at the ICU of the capital’s United Hospital.