Speaking at an anti-narcotics campaign at Stamford University, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told reporters that they had received the audio clips related to the killing of Teknaf Municipality Councillor and Awami League leader Ekramul Haque.
Asaduzzaman added that the investigation into the killing of Ekramul was being conducted by a magistrate.
Mentioning that no murder or accident is beyond investigation, he said probe bodies would be formed to look into the matter.
The list of drug dealers will be updated on a regular basis, and the anti-narcotics drive will continue for the time being, he added.
“The government does not want anyone to be killed,” the minister also said. “We were not able to control those who were killed in the gunfights. We want to keep people away from drug abuse.”
Ekramul, an upazila-level leader of the ruling Awami League, was killed in a “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on May 26.
The elite paramilitary anti-crime taskforce claimed Ekramul had been involved in the drug trade.
Refuting the claim and pointing to the audio clips as evidence, the deceased’s wife Ayesha Begum alleged that he had been killed in cold blood, not in a gunfight as the anti-crime task force claimed.
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She wanted a fair investigation into the killing of her husband and intervention of the prime minister in the matter so on one has to lose her or his dear ones in such “unjust actions.”
Ayesha also gave reporters a total of four audio clips that recorded terrifying conversations between Ekram and his family right before he died in a hail of bullets.
The audio recorded on a mobile phone also captured sounds of gunfire and groans of a dying man.
As the groaning continued for a while, Ekramul’s wife and two daughters on the other side of the phone screamed and begged for his life, saying he was innocent, according to one of the clips.