Probe Into Sinha Murder: Call recordings ‘unavailable’
The committee formed to probe the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan was unable to obtain the call recordings of around 30 people related to the incident and will mention it as a "limitation" of the investigation when submitting its findings to the home ministry tomorrow.
The probe body was able to get call lists of the people, including those of former Teknaf Police Station officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das and sub-inspector Liakat Ali, who shot Sinha at Shamlapur check point on Marine Drive road on July 31.
However, despite having the call lists at hand, they were unable to obtain the call recordings of those people from the authorities concerned.
Contacted, Mizanur Rahman, head of the probe committee formed by the home ministry, yesterday told The Daily Star that they would mention it as a "limitation" in the probe report.
"If we could get the recordings, the investigation would be better. We might have gotten something important. But we will submit the report mentioning it as a limitation," said Mizanur, who is the additional divisional commissioner (ADC) of Chattogram.
Asked, he said, "The OC has made a number of calls and also received some. An OC can talk to various people but the content of the conversations are important."
Contacted yesterday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said, "I am not aware of the issue. We did not interfere in the investigation. We provided support."
On Friday, ADC Mizanur told reporters in Cox's Bazar that they would submit their report on Sunday, adding that the committee members have spoken to 68 people related to the killing incident in various ways and recorded their statements. They have finalised the report unanimously after scrutinising the information given by those people.
"The report will be submitted to the home ministry on September 6 [today]. The report will show why the incident took place and who are responsible for it," he added.
He further said there would be recommendations in the report so that such incidents do not recur in the future.
A murder case was filed in this connection and it is currently under trial, he said, adding that the investigation officer of the case is also working on it.
The court will decide who is guilty of the murder, he said.
Only the court has the jurisdiction to convict the responsible persons and sentence them to jail, he added.
The court can use the probe report if it thinks it is necessary, the probe body chief said.
The home ministry's public security division formed the probe committee on August 2.
Three other members of the committee are Shahjahan Ali, additional district magistrate of Cox's Bazar, Lt Col SM Sazzad Hossain, representative of the armed forces division of Bangladesh Army, and Zakir Hossain Khan, additional deputy inspector general of Chattogram range.
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