Seven more arrested
Law enforcers yesterday arrested seven more people in connection with the gruesome four-murder case in Tangail while the prime suspect Jahangir Hossain remains at large.
The arrestees are Mir Azadul Islam, manager of Machhranga Filling Station in Mirzapur, the station's cashier Abul Basher, supervisor Wasim Miah and lineman Abdul Mannan, and Susanto Kumar Roy, a friend of Jahangir from Gorai Noyapara village, Nannu Miah, Jahangir's uncle from Chandpur village of Kaliakair upazila and Badsa Miah, Jahangir's cousin from Borochala village of Sakhipur upazila.
Of the seven arrestees, six were sent to jail through a Tangail court and Susanto Kumar Roy was produced before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.
But the court granted three-day remand for him, said Saleh Mohammed Tanvir, superintendent of police in Tangail.
Earlier on Thursday, Jahangir's younger brother Abu Hanif Miah was taken on three-day police remand.
Rickshaw-puller Mohammad Ali Hossen, who was detained in connection with the killing, had already given confessional statement to a court on Thursday that Jahangir had hired him to carry petrol in two cans from a nearby filling station, police sources said.
Miscreants burnt alive Hasna Begum, 35, wife of expatriate Mozibor Rahman of Dakkhin Sohagpara village in Mirzapur, and their three daughters--Monira Akter, 14, Meem Akter, 10, and Moli Akter, 7, on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, people of Sohagpara village formed a human chain in the area demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the culprits.
Earlier on the day, the Prothom Alo Bandhusabha formed separate human chains in Mirzapur and Tangail.
Family members of the victims suspect that their neighbour Jahangir Hossain, 25, set Mozibor's house ablaze following a dispute over his engagement with Monira, Mozibor's eldest daughter.
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