Sagar Biswas :
The role of police department has again come under question for their failure in nabbing the owner of Gharowa restaurant, the prime accused of murdering 16-year-old employee Mohammad Riad, even after eighteen days of the incident.
There are widespread allegations that the police are not showing any interest to nab main accused Ariful Islam Sohel [Gharowa restaurant owner] due to illicit monetary transaction between the two sides, though he has been reportedly staying in the country since the incident.
Some police officials also echoed the same view saying that the accused killer Sohel has still not left the country but he is escaping arrest by changing his location within a short notice.
“So far as we know, the owner of Gharowa restaurant Sohel involved with the murder of his employee Riad has been staying in the country. The members of law enforcement agencies failed to catch despite several raids…….However; I hope he will be caught soon,” Muntasirul Islam, Deputy Commissioner, Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division, Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said on Saturday.
When asked whether Sohel has fled to neighbouring India to escape arrest, he said, “According to police investigation, he is staying in the country. …He has no passport. Even if he takes shelter in India, it will not possible for him to stay there illegally for a long time.”
Two Gharowa restaurant employees, Jasim and Farid, had already given judicial statements in the court that they saw Sohel brutally torturing Riad in the restaurant [Motijheel] and in their Swamibagh mess. They also said about witnessing shooting and killing of Riad by restaurant owner Sohel.
The DB official said, “He is applying different techniques in a bid to escape the murder charge. In fact, he is absconding since the police investigation unveiled his involvement in the killing of restaurant boy. There are three accused. One of them two staff have given confessional statement under 164 in the court elaborating the incident.”
On October, Sohel shot and killed Riad at his under construction building at Mitali School Lane in the city’s Swamibagh, accusing him of ‘stealing a mobile phone and Tk 1,500’.
The role of police department has again come under question for their failure in nabbing the owner of Gharowa restaurant, the prime accused of murdering 16-year-old employee Mohammad Riad, even after eighteen days of the incident.
There are widespread allegations that the police are not showing any interest to nab main accused Ariful Islam Sohel [Gharowa restaurant owner] due to illicit monetary transaction between the two sides, though he has been reportedly staying in the country since the incident.
Some police officials also echoed the same view saying that the accused killer Sohel has still not left the country but he is escaping arrest by changing his location within a short notice.
“So far as we know, the owner of Gharowa restaurant Sohel involved with the murder of his employee Riad has been staying in the country. The members of law enforcement agencies failed to catch despite several raids…….However; I hope he will be caught soon,” Muntasirul Islam, Deputy Commissioner, Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division, Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said on Saturday.
When asked whether Sohel has fled to neighbouring India to escape arrest, he said, “According to police investigation, he is staying in the country. …He has no passport. Even if he takes shelter in India, it will not possible for him to stay there illegally for a long time.”
Two Gharowa restaurant employees, Jasim and Farid, had already given judicial statements in the court that they saw Sohel brutally torturing Riad in the restaurant [Motijheel] and in their Swamibagh mess. They also said about witnessing shooting and killing of Riad by restaurant owner Sohel.
The DB official said, “He is applying different techniques in a bid to escape the murder charge. In fact, he is absconding since the police investigation unveiled his involvement in the killing of restaurant boy. There are three accused. One of them two staff have given confessional statement under 164 in the court elaborating the incident.”
On October, Sohel shot and killed Riad at his under construction building at Mitali School Lane in the city’s Swamibagh, accusing him of ‘stealing a mobile phone and Tk 1,500’.
