Tk one lakh bounty for key accused
Police yesterday declared a bounty of Tk 1 lakh for information that may lead to the arrest of Jahangir Hossain, the prime suspect in the brutal killing of a woman and her three daughters in Tangail on Tuesday.
Mahfuzul Haque Nuruzzaman, deputy inspector general of police (Dhaka Range), declared the reward before the reporters at Mirzapur Police Station in Tangail yesterday afternoon.
The DIG also declared reward for those who will help law enforcers with information to track Jahangir. The identities of the informers will be kept secret.
Meanwhile, Mozibor Rahman, expatriate husband of Hasna, along with some of his relatives yesterday described the incident and its background to the DIG at the police station. They also expressed their disappointment as police were yet to nab the main accused although five days had elapsed.
The DIG assured them that Jahangir cannot flee the country as police had seized his passport from his house after the incident. "The culprits will be arrested as soon as possible and the government is very serious about it."
The roles of Mirzapur police including its officer-in-charge (OC) as well as the village elders before and after the incident will also be investigated, the DIG said.
He also directed Saleh Mohammed Tanvir, superintendent of police in Tangail, to intensify their drives to catch Jahangir and his accomplices and to take proper steps to give exemplary punishment to the culprits.
The senior police officers later visited the house where the gruesome killing took place and also talked with the locals.
Meanwhile, law enforcers detained Badar Uddin, uncle of Jahangir and an accused in the case, from Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur last night. With Badar, the number of arrestees in the murder case rose to nine till yesterday. The case was filed by Hasna's brother Mofazzal Hossain against 10 people with Mirzapur Police Station.
Hasna Begum, 35, along with her three daughters Monira Akter, 14, Meem Akter, 10, and Molly Akter, 7, were burnt alive when miscreants set fire to their house at Dakkhin Sohagpara village under Mirzapur upazila in Tangail on Tuesday.
The tragic incident happened as Monira, the eldest daughter of Mozibor, refused to marry Jahangir, 25, to whom she was engaged three years ago, relatives and neighbours said.
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