Risha’s suspected killer Obaidul arrested

Police yesterday arrested Obaidul Khan for allegedly killing 14-year-old schoolgirl Suraiya Akther Risha in the capital. Obaidul was arrested from Domar upazila of Nilphamari district around 7:15am yesterday. A police team brought Obaidul Khan to Dhaka from Nilphamari in the afternoon. Domar OC Ahmed Rajiur Rahman said: “Some villagers spotted Obaidul and informed us. Later, we went to the spot and arrested him with the help of the locals.” The OC said Obaidul would be sent to Dhaka. At a press briefing, Nilphamari Police Superintendent Jakir Hossain Khan said Obaidul was arrested in a joint raid by local police, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). A local named Dulal Hossain, 40, son of Aftab Uddin at Harinchora in Domar, however, told journalists that he saw Obaidul having his breakfast at Rafiq’s hotel in Sonaray Bazar. Earlier, he saw Obaidul’s picture in newspaper and social Facebook. Then he called the Domar police and informed them about Obaidul. The Domar police came and arrested him. Later, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) reached the scene, he said. Meanwhile, Shekh Maruf Hossain Sarder, deputy commissioner of DMP’s Ramna division, told the Dhaka Tribune that Obaidul being was brought to Dhaka. As promised, he was arrested within 48 hours. Risha, a student of Willes Little Flower School and College, was stabbed by Obaidul on August 24 and succumbed to her injuries at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday. Her mother Tania Hossain suspected one Obaidul Khan, a cutting master of a Baishakhi Ladies Tailors on the Elephant Road’s Eastern Mollika Shopping Mall, of stabbing her daughter for refusing his advances. A murder case was filed with the Ramna police station in this connection. She also said a few months ago Risha went to Baishakhi tailors to make a cloth. She gave Obaidul her mobile phone number for communicating. After that Obaidul had been been irritating Risha by phone calls.