Bullet found in victim's body was from Rony's pistol
Ballistic tests confirmed that a bullet found inside the body of one of the two persons killed in a shooting in the capital recently was shot from a licensed pistol of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, police said yesterday.
Bakhtiar is the son of Pinu Khan, a lawmaker of the ruling Awami League.
At a press briefing at the DMP media centre, Monirul Islam, spokesperson for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said they received the report on Wednesday.
Ballistic tests are done to determine if a particular bullet was fired from a particular gun.
The bullet that went through the body of the other victim was never found, Ramna Police Station Sub-inspector Saiful Islam said earlier.
The other accused Imran Fakir was the driver of the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) in which Bakhtiar along with his two friends -- Kamal Alias Tiger Kamal and Kamal Mahmood -- was travelling during the incident of April 14.
Court sources said the three in their statements before metropolitan magistrates said that Bakhtiar lowered the window of the SUV after it got stuck in a traffic jam at New Eskaton and fired four to five times around 1:30am, hitting Abdul Hakim, rickshaw-puller, and Yakub Ali, CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver. They died at hospital later.
Bakhtiar was drunk and feeling “suffocated inside the vehicle”, investigators had quoted Bakhtiar as saying.
Monirul said they might not name Fakir as an accused in the charge sheet as his involvement in the shooting could not be established during the investigation.
He said the investigation into the case was almost over and claimed that the evidence they had was enough to prove the charges against Bakhtiar, now in jail.
The DMP official said police would seek fresh remand for Bakhtiar who had already been placed on a four-day remand in the case.
Monirul reiterated that they would request the authorities to cancel the arms license of Bakhtiar.
Police arrested Bakhtiar and Fakir on 31 May and seized the pistol.
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