The police are now investigating whether there was any negligence by the on-duty police officials who were present when Darus Salam police ASI Ibrahim Hossain Mollah was stabbed to death.
DMP Additional Commissioner (crime and ops) Sheikh Mohammad Maruf Hossain, the chief of the probe committee, said they were trying to figure out how such an attack could be carried out in the presence of several policemen.
What those on-duty officials were doing during the attack would fall under the committee’s probe, Maruf said, adding that strict measures would be handed out if any on-duty policemen were found to have shown negligence in performing their duties. He also confirmed that the killer has been identified as Bogra district Shibir President Enamul Haque.
On October 22, ASI Ibrahim was stabbed to death while trying to inspect the contents of a bag being carried by suspicious-looking young men. Ibrahim was on duty, along with four to five other colleagues, at a police checkpost in front of Gabtoli’s Parbat Cinema Hall.
Enamul managed to escape, but his accomplice, Masud Rana Sumon, was captured. Based on his information, police conducted a raid in the Kamrangirchar and recovered bombs and a huge stash of bomb-making equipment.
Later, investigators claimed that explosives seized during the Kamrangirchar drive and the handmade bomb used during the Hussaini Dalan attack were made by the same person.
Asked about the matter, Additional Commissioner Maruf said they were looking into the similarities between the bombs.