A case has been filed over the police constable killing at a check post in Ashulia industrial area.
Ashulia police station Sub-Inspector Azharul Islam filed the case against several unidentified people early Thursday.
Police also arrested seven people in this connection, Ashulia police station OC Mohasin Kadir said.
A three-member investigation committee was formed to probe the incident.
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Police constable Mukul Hossain who was deployed at a check post was killed and his colleague was injured in an attack as they stopped a motorcycle for checking on Wednesday morning.
It occurred only four days after a publisher was hacked to death in Shahbagh and two weeks after another police constable was stabbed to death in a similar fashion at a check post in the capital’s Darussalam area.
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On Saturday, secular publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, whose publishing house published two books of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, was hacked to death in the capital’s Aziz Super Market. Suspected militants injured one of Avijit’s publishers Ahmedur Rashid Tutul at his office in Lalmatia the same day. Tutul’s two friends staying at the office at that time were also injured.
On October 22, an on-duty assistant sub-inspector of Darussalam police, Ibrahim Hossain Mollah, 40, was stabbed twice – in his chest and abdomen – while trying to inspect at a check post in front of Parbat Cinema Hall the contents of a bag being carried by three suspicious-looking young men.
