Cops verifying versions of arrestees

A Dhaka court yesterday sent to jail two sons of Bangabandhu murder convict Lt Col (retd) Mohiuddin Ahmed and Freedom Party leader Abdur Rahim, who were arrested in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh.
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan Talukdar sent Mohiuddin's sons Nazmul Hasan Sohel and Mahbubul Hasan Emran and the Freedom Party leader to jail after the investigation officer of the bomb attack case produced them before the court.
Investigation officer Assistant Commissioner Akbar Hossain told the court that the three needed to be sent to jail for the sake of verification of the information they had given interrogators.
Freedom Party leader Abdur Rahim had been interrogated for 12 days while Sohel and Emran for eight days each in three spells of remand, police said.
Detective police arrested seven persons for their suspected links to the bomb attack on Taposh, and five of them are family members of convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Five of the arrestees are now in jail. The Detective Branch is interrogating two others.
Deputy Commissioner Md Moniurl Islam of DB south told The Daily Star that they gleaned important information from the arrestees but declined to disclose the findings for the sake of investigation.
Lawmaker Taposh came under the bomb attack on October 21 night that left at least 13 people injured. Taposh escaped unhurt.