Staff Reporter : A listed top terror and prime accused in the sensational Parag abduction case was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with cops in Mirerbagh area of South Keraniganj, on the outskirts of capital, early Tuesday. The victim has been identified as Moktar Hossain Amir alias Langra Amir, 40, a top terror listed with police, said Sha Mizan Shafiur Rahman, Superintendent of Police in Dhaka. Ealier, Moktar was arrested from Shoronkhola area of Bagerhat district on Monday night, the police official said. “Acting on Amir’s information that his firearms and some used bullets were kept near Mirerbagh Textile Mills area, police reached the area. At that time, two or three cohorts of Amir tried to snatch him away from police triggering the gunfight. Police and the criminals exchanged twenty rounds of bullets before Amir’s cohorts fled the scene leaving Amir injured,” the SP said. Police took Amir to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital where on-duty doctors declared him dead, he said. Monirul Islam, Officer-In-Charge (OC) of South Keraniganj Police Station, said two rounds of bullets, one foreign pistol and two 24-inch long knives were recovered from the spot. In 2012, miscreants led by Amir abducted Parag Mondol, a six-year-old KG-I student of Heed International School of the capital’s Sadarghat from Shubhadda Paschimpara in Keraniganj on November 11. The abductors shot and injured his mother Lipi Rani Mondal, 32, sister Pinaki Mondal, 11, and their car driver Nazrul Islam, 35, during the kidnapping. They set Parag free after reportedly taking a ransom of Tk 50 lakh on November 13.
