Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed to have arrested of the mastermind of Brigadier General (retd) Wajih Ahmed Chowdhury murder from the city’s Pallabi area on Wednesday night.
The accused has been identified as Ahad Ali, 35, RAB official said.
RAB-4 Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Aziz Bin Jalil said that 35-year-old Ahad Ali had been picked up from a house in Pallabi on Wednesday night.The elite force official labelled him as the ‘mastermind’ of the murder, adding that Ahad was being interrogated, the RAB official said.
Brigadier General Wajih was found dead in his house of the Defence Officers’ Housing Society (DOHS) in the capital’s Mohakhali area on October 7. The 76-year-old, who hailed from Sylhet’s Golapganj, retired from the army in 1992.
Autopsy reports released by the Dhaka Medical College Hospital concluded that he was strangled to death.
