Rangpur Lawyer Murder: Accused Kamrul confesses his involvement
A prime accused in lawyer Rathish murder case, Kamrul Islam, has admitted his involvement in the crime before a Rangpur court, sources say.
He was placed on a 10-day remand on April 5.
According to court officials, Rangpur police produced Kamrul before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court around 8:30pm on Thursday amid a tight security.
His statement was recorded until 12:30am, the officials said.
Kamrul was produced before the court two days before the expiry of his 10-day remand, granted by the same court.
Babul Mia, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Sadar Police Station, said police brought him to the court when he agreed to give confessional statement in the murder case.
Rathish, public prosecutor at the Special Judge's Court in Rangpur, was murdered over alleged extramarital affairs between his wife Snigdha Sarkar Dipa and Kamrul, police and Rab said earlier.
Snigdha and Kamrul are in Rangpur jail, said police.
On April 5, Dipa and her two students Rokon and Sabuj, who are also accused in the case, gave their confessional statements before the same court, said police.
Snigdha and Kamrul are teachers at Tajhat High School, while Rathish was the president of the school's managing committee. Sabuj and Rokon were class eight students of the school. The two were sent to Juvenile Correction Centre in Jessore.
On information gleaned from Dipa, a team of Rab-13 dug out the lawyer's body from an under-construction building in the city's Tajhat Mollahpara area on April 4.
Quoting Dipa, Rab Director General Benazir Ahmed said Dipa and Kamrul murdered Rathish at his home on March 29 night.
On the instructions of Kamrul, the two students dug a pit and buried the body, he said at a press conference at the Rab-13 Rangpur office on April 4.
Dipa earlier claimed that Rathish had gone missing on March 30 morning.
Rathish, law affairs secretary of Rangpur Awami League, was also involved with different socio-cultural organisations in the district.
He was the public prosecutor in the murder cases of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi and Khadem Rahmat Ali.
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