Four held in M’singh
Detective police last night arrested four youths from Ishwarganj upazila of Mymensingh, in connection with the murder of auto-rickshaw driver Ratan Mia (28) in Nandail upazila on Saturday night.
The arrestees are Riad Ahmed Sajib (21), Khorshed Alam (19), Sohel Rana (20), and Ripon Mia (18).
They confessed in police interrogation that they had a long-standing feud with Ratan over money he owed them.
After the interrogation, they were produced before a Mymensingh court, which recorded their statement under Section-164 and sent them to jail, said OC Shah Kamal Akanda of detective branch (DB) of police in Mymensingh.
Quoting victim's family members, officer-in-charge of Nandail Police Station Monsur Ahmed said Ratan, a father of two, went out of his house with his auto-rickshaw on Saturday afternoon but did not return home.
Locals found his body the next morning at a field near Madhupur-Dewanganj road. On information, police recovered and sent the body to a morgue for autopsy.
Police recovered a blood stained hammer from the spot. The victim's mother lodged a case with the police station accusing unknown persons. The case was taken up by DB, who started investigation and arrested the youths yesterday.
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