Staff Reporter :
Muggers killed Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mizanur Ranman Talukder recently after sensing that he was a police official.
Four men took part in the killing.
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit Chief Monirul Islam on Sunday made the disclosure in a press briefing at DMP media Center on Sunday morning.
The briefing was organised a day after detectives arrested one Shah Alam alias Alam alias Budda from Tongi on the outskirts of Dhaka in connection with the murder.
“Shah Alam admitted to his involvement in the murder in primary interrogation,” Monirul Islam said.
“Muggers picked up Mizanur in a private car for mugging, but decided to kill him after realizing that he was a high-ranking police official,” the CTTC chief said.
In primary interrogation, Shah Alam said he and three other accomplices namely Faruk, Kamal and Mintu. They took part in the killing, he claimed.
“Among them, Mintu, sitting on the back seat, hit Mizanur in his head and one of them strangulated him with a piece of jhut (garment waste). They later dumped his body near Birulia Bridge in Savar,” he said.
Mizanur Rahman, 50, an ASP of Savar highway circle, was killed by unidentified assailants hours after he left his Uttara residence to join work at Kaliakoir in Gazipur on June 21 this year.
Masum Talukder, the victim’s younger brother, filed a murder case with Rupnagar Police Station accusing some unnamed persons.
