Narayanganj Correspondent :
Three more people, who were arrested from Kararchar village in Sarsingdi in the early hours of Thursday in connection with the abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj, were produced before a court here yesterday.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Monowara Begum ordered a three-day remand to all the arrested persons as the police produced them before her court.
Earlier, Police arrested the three people, including a woman, from Kararchar village under Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi district on late Wednesday night in connection with the seven murders in Narayanganj.
The arrestees were identified as Mintu, Masuma and Tipu. They are all close associates of councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the abduction and killing case of NCC panel mayor and councillor Nazrul Islam and six others.
They went into hiding after the killing and took shelter in the house of Abdul Awal of Kararchar village.
Narayanganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Khandaker Mahid Uddin disclosed this at a press briefing in his office on Thursday. He, however, did not give details of the arrestees.
Narsingdi Correspondent adds: The three people have been arrested from Kararchar village under Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi in connection with the abduction and the subsequent killing of seven people in Narayanganj.
A team of Detective Branch of police of Narayanganj and Shibpur thana on Wednesday night raided the house of Abdul Awal at Kararchar village and arrested the three. DB Inspector Mamunur Rashid of Narayanganj and SI Firoz of Narsingdi DB office led the joint drive.
About the transfer of four police officials, the Narayanganj SP said that they have been shifted for the sake of transparent investigation into the sensational murder case.
The police officials are Akhter Hossain and Abdul Matin, officers-in-charge of Fatullah and Siddhirganj police stations and Mahbubur Rahman and Abdul Awal, OCs of Detective Branch police.
Of them, Awal, who was probing the seven-murder case, was replaced by Mamunur Rashid Mondol in the wake of a controversy over his alleged links with the prime accused Nur Hossain in the murder case.
The new investigation officer of this case has already taken charge, the SP told reporters.
“We will take all out measures, including interrogations of people from any quarters, for fair investigation into the case,” he said in response to a query.
