Three held in city
Detective branch of police yesterday arrested three criminals on charge of gun attack in broad daylight on August 3 that left Advocate Mia Mohammad Zakir Hossain injured at his chamber at Kailash Ghosh Lane in court area in the city.
The arrestees are Akram, 43, alias Mamu, Saiful, 31, alias Saif and Nur-e-Alam Khan, 44, alias Nur. Police also seized a pistol and two bullets from the possession of Saiful.
The arrestees identifying themselves as accomplices of top listed criminal Dakait Shahid told reporters at DB office that they made the attack as Zakir refused to pay them money demanded by ringleader Shahid.
DB police sources said they arrested Akram at around 5:00am from Khilgaon and as per his information they arrested Saifuddin from South Kamalpur and Nur Alam from Wari.
In preliminary interrogation they told DB police that they shot the advocate as per directive of Shahid, who is now in hiding in India.
Police said the criminals were produced before a Dhaka court yesterday which put them on a four-day remand.
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