Nilphamari Correspondent :Mohammad Obaidul, alleged killer of Suraiya Akter Risha, a student of class-VIII in the city’s Willes Little Flower School and College, was arrested from Sonahar village in Domar upazila of Nilphamari district on Wednesday early morning.”Acting on a tip off, a special squad of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in association with the members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and local police arrested Obaidul, a 28-year-old alleged killer of Risha,”Ahmed Raziur Rahman, officer in charge (OC) of Domar Police Station told the journalists on Wednesday. After stabbing Risha in the city’s Kakrail area on August 24, Obaidul went into hiding and took shelter at a jungle at Sonahar village of Nilphamari district. Risha succumbed to her injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on August 29 after the brutal attack. Obaidul, son of late Abdus Samad, hailing from Miradangi village under Mohonpur Union of Beerganj police station in Dinajpur district, was a cutting master of a tailoring shop in the capital city.Raziur Rahman said at first Obaidul went to his Miradangi village home to take shelter from where he went to Sonahar village in Domar upazila of Nilphamari district to avert arrest. Earlier on Monday, police arrested Obaidul’s sister M Khadiza Begum and brother-in-law Khadimul Islam from Miratongi village in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur. According to the police officials, based on information extracted from the sister and brother-in-law of Obaidul, the members of law enforcing agencies conducted the raid at the village where Khademul’s younger brother Khusbul Islam works at Brac office at Domar upazila branch in Nilphamari district.
“As Obaidul came to Khusbul’s office on Tuesday night to stay there, police raided it. But dodging the police, Obaidul managed a good escape from the scene and took shelter in a jungle,” the OC of Domar Police Station said. On Wednesday morning as soon as Obaidul came out of the jungle where he stayed at night and came to Sonarai Bazar to flee the scene by a battery run three-wheeler, law enforcers in plainclothes nabbed him and took him to Domar police station.Risha’s killing led to street agitation by the students and guardians of Willes Little Flower School and College in the last few days.As the news of her death spread, hundreds of students launched demonstration, pressing for immediate arrest of the attacker.In the face of massive protest, police on Tuesday pledged to arrest Obaidul within 48 hours.Risha’s mother Tania Hossain already filed a case against Obaidul under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Ramna Police Station.Office-in-Charge (OC) of Ramna Police Station M Moshiur Rahman told that Obaidul is now being taken to capital Dhaka for interrogation.
“He (Obaidul) will be produced before a Dhaka court on Thursday,” he said.Talking to journalists on Tuesday Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (media) of DMP said Obaidul is being brought to Dhaka till filing of this report on Wednesday night.Suraiya Akhter Risha, 14, daughter of Md Ramzan Ali of Bangshal of old Dhaka was stabbed by Obaidul in front of her educational institution at Kakrail in the capital on August 24.Earlier the alleged killer Obaidul offered a love proposal to Risha near a foot over adjacent to the institution. As she refused him, Obadidul became furious and stabbed he.
