News Desk :
Armed Police Battalion (APBn) member Constable Md Abdullah, who is one of the accused in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case, has given confessional statement before a Cox’s Bazar court on Wednesday night.
Judge of Teknaf Upazila Senior Magistrate Court Tamanna Farah recorded the statement under section 164 of code of criminal procedure over four hours.
The court later sent him to jail, a source at the court said.Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Khairul Islam of Rab, also the investigation officer of the murder case, produced Abdullah before the court around 4:00pm. He took him to Cox’s Bazar jail around 8:30pm.
However, the investigation officer did not talk to media in this connection.
On August 22, Rab took three APBn members, including Constable Abdullah, in custody for interrogation in the case.
Two others are Assistant Sub-inspector Md Shahjahan and Constable Razib. They were members of APBn-16.
Around 9:30pm of July 31, they were on duty at Shamlapur checkpoint, yards away from the spot where Maj (retd) Sinha was killed, according to Rab.
Rab arrested the three APBn members on August 17 and they were later placed on a seven-day remand by a court in the murder case.
