ASI murder: Arrestee Masud placed on 7-day remand

A Dhaka Court places an accused Masud Rana alias Sujon in seven days remand over murdering a police officer in the capital. Star file photo

A Dhaka Court today placed an accused Masud Rana alias Sujon in seven days remand over murdering a police officer in the capital.

Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain Tipu passed the order in response to a 10-day remand prayer moved by Detectives Branch (DB) Inspector Selim Mollah.

Meanwhile, three others shown arrested in the murder case were also remanded five days each, Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said. Their identities could not be confirmed.

Aassistant Sub-Inspector Ibrahim Mollah was stabbed to death by a youth on Thursday night at a checkpoint at the capital's Gabtoli when a police team was frisking the young man's bag.

In a massive drive, police yesterday detained 31 people, including some BNP and Jamaat men, in Dhaka and Bogra over the killing of the police officer.

They are all part of a large gang that was planning to carry out subversive activities in the capital and elsewhere, police claimed.

Investigators claimed the youth who stabbed Ibrahim was a member of this “gang” that assembled in the city to implement their plan.

The assailant, identified as 24-year-old Kamal, travelled to the capital from Bogra several times in the last few months, they said, quoting his detained friend Masud Rana, who had accompanied him. 

Masud used to stay in the Mosjid Chhatrabas, the student mess in Bogra from where cops detained the 21 students.

Around 9:00pm on Thursday, police stopped Kamal and Masud at a checkpoint in front of Parbat Cinema Hall after they got down from a bus from Bogra.

As Ibrahim was checking Kamal's bag, he stabbed the police officer and fled. Masud tried to escape but failed.