Staff Reporter :
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said that action would be taken if negligence of any member of the police force is found in the Rifat Sharif murder case.
“Those involved in the incident won’t be spared and a bit more time will be needed to arrest the attackers,” he said while talking to reporters at the Secretariat.
The minister further said, “Killing a young man in broad daylight is not acceptable to us. It is a heinous crime.”
Replying to a question, Asaduzzaman, said, “Anyone who commits crimes will be punished, no matter which political party he or she belongs to.”
Replying to another question, he said those involved in drug peddling will be brought to book as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced zero tolerance against drug.
Meanwhile, police have arrested three more suspects in the case over the daylight murder of Refat Sharif in Barguna, said Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Maruf Hossain.
One of the three suspects has, however, qualified recently in the police recruitment examination. He said that the arrests were made during raids across Barguna, Patuakhali and Dhaka between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
The arrestees identified only as Tanvir, Fahimul and Sagor, were not named in the case.
Speaking at a media briefing on Sunday, the SP said, Tanvir was arrested in Barguna town on Saturday while Fahimul and Sagor were arrested in Patuakhali town and Dhaka, respectively, on Sunday morning.
“They have been arrested as suspects in the case,” he said.
Earlier, police arrested another suspect, Nazmul, along with two of the accused in the case, ‘Chandan’ and ‘Hasan’.
On Jun 26, Refat, 23, was attacked in broad daylight by a group of assailants wielding long, sharp weapons in the town’s College Road area as his wife desperately but vainly tried to save him.
He later died of excessive bleeding caused from the wounds he sustained during the attack, according to a post-mortem examination conducted at the Barishal Medical College Hospital.
His father Dulal Sharif subsequently initiated a case with Barguna police against 12 people.
