Staff Reporter :
The top suspect in connection with murder of police official’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu has been arrested, police claimed on Saturday.
The arrested person has been identified as Mohammad Shah Zaman alias Robin, 28, son of Mohammad Shahjahan hailing from Laksham upazila of Comilla district. “After scanning the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage Shah Zaman alias Robin has been arrested from Shital Jhorna area under Bayezid Police Station,” Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Iqbal Bahar told journalists in a press briefing at the port city police headquarters yesterday afternoon.
He said, the arrested youth was seen in the CCTV footage following Mahmuda Khanam Mitu before her murder. Wearing check shirt and blue jeans, he was seen talking over a mobile phone while following Mitu, added the CMP commissioner.
“We suspect that the detainee is the same person who was seen walking past a lamppost near the place where the CCTV was installed. He might be communicating with his accomplices over mobile phone,” he said.
“We are verifying and examining in details about the arrested person,” he further said.
Meanwhile, driver of a black microbus, who was detained on Wednesday, was freed as police did not find his any link with the murder through verification and interrogation, the police official added.
Meanwhile, five people have been arrested in connection with the murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.
The law enforcer continued to carryout investigation following the CCTV camera footage that showed three people riding on a bike attacked her and took 40 to 50 seconds to complete the task. Police claimed that they have found similarities of this murder with the murders in the last two years, for which police have blamed Islamist radicals.
On June 5, three assailants reportedly stabbed and shot dead Mitu, 32, who left her Nizam Road residence on foot to drop her son at a school bus at GEC intersection in the port city around 6:45am.
The victim’s husband Babul Aktar got promotion as superintendent of police recently and was posted at police headquarters in Dhaka. Earlier, he was additional deputy commissioner of detective branch of CMP.
