The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested an accomplice of Nur Hossain, the prime suspect in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, from North Channel union in Faridpur early yesterday.
The arrested Murtaza Jaman Churchill, is Nur’s chief bodyguard, police said.
Officer-in-charge of Faridpur DB police Sunil Kumar Karmakar said law enforcers arrested Churchill from his father-in-law’s house around 3am and took him into DB custody.
On May 18, locals caught Shipon and Joha, two of Nur’s cronies, at Kadamtali and subjected them to a mob beating and then handed them over to police. They were later arrested under Section 54 and were placed on remand.
Narayanganj Panel Mayor Nazrul Islam and six others were abducted on April 27. Their bodies were found floating in the Shitalakhya River on April 30.
Nazrul’s wife filed an abduction case against Nur and four others on April 28.
Nur went into hiding immediately after the recovery of Nazrul’s body.
