3 remanded in Rangpur over Hoshi killing
A Rangpur court yesterday granted a 10-day remand for the three people arrested for their alleged involvement in Japanese national Kunio Hoshi killing.
In another development, two people yesterday gave their judicial statements as witnesses before a Dhaka court in Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella murder case.
Tavella was shot dead by three assailants in the capital's Gulshan diplomatic zone on September 28, while Hoshi was killed in a similar fashion at Alutari village in Rangpur's Kaunia upazila on October 3.
In the Hoshi murder case, police produced Rajib Hossain Sumon, Nawshad Hossain Rubel and Kajol Chandra Barman before a Rangpur court and sought a 10-day remand for each, reports our Rangpur correspondent.
Shafiul Alam, senior judicial magistrate, granted the remand plea. The three were arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from Chapainawabganj on November 13.
ABM Zahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kaunia Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star that they sought the remand as police needed to interrogate them about the murder of Hoshi.
Meanwhile, the same court yesterday rejected bail petitions of two other suspects in the case -- Humayun Kabir Hira and Rashed-un-Nabi Khan Biplob, who were arrested following the murder -- and sent them to jail.
The court also fixed December 15 as the next date of hearing on the case.
In the Tavella murder case, Abul Kalam, who owns a shop of used cell phones, and Tisha, a friend of one of the arrestees in the case, gave their depositions before a Dhaka court as witnesses.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Asaduzzaman Noor recorded their statements.
Detectives have arrested five people -- Tamjid Ahmed alias Rubel alias Shooter Rubel, Russell Chowdhury alias Chakki Russell and Minhazul Arifin Russell alias Bhagne Russell, Shakhawat Hossian alias Sharif and MA Matin -- in the Tavella killing case.
Except Matin, all gave their confessional statements.
In his deposition, Kalam told the court that Rubel bought a red colour cell phone a couple of days before the murder of Tavella. He said he identified the phone seized by the detectives from Rubel, according to court sources.
In her statement, Tisha said her friend Rubel had been staying with her in her Basabo house since September 26, but left the house on the afternoon of September 28. He came back to the house around 9:00pm that day.
Tavella was killed around 6:30pm on September 28.
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