Another held for killing DCC councillor
Detectives arrested another person Thursday in connection with the killing of Dhaka City Corporation councillor Ahmed Hossain.
The arrestee Mohammad Moinuddin is a transport businessman of Old Dhaka. A Dhaka court placed Moinuddin on a four-day remand yesterday.
With his arrest, the number of arrestees in the case now stands at seven.
Meanwhile, Keraniganj Shuvadda union parishad chairman Nazimuddin, arrested in connection with the killing, was yesterday placed on a four-day fresh remand on completion of his three-day remand.
Moinuddin was arrested on the basis of the confessional statement another arrestee Biddyut made before a magistrate Thursday. Biddyut in his statement said hours before the killing of Ahmed, Moinuddin on his bike took Ahmed to the office of Nazimuddin at Bijoynagar and then to Alubazar.
Ahmed was gunned down on February 9 at Alubazar in Old Dhaka as he was about to leave a mosque after prayers.
Nazimuddin had told investigators that he hired Dakat Shahid for Tk 50 lakh to have Ahmed Hossain eliminated as the councillor obstructed Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam from buying an LPG cylinder factory of Pak-Bangla Household Manufacturing Ltd in Hasnabad of Keraniganj.
Ahmed Hossain and Nazimuddin were both major shareholders of Pak-Bangla Household Manufacturing Ltd.
Detectives have decided to summon Shah Alam for quizzing in connection with the case and to verify the information gleaned from Nazimuddin, said detective sources.
Quoting Nazimuddin, Assistant Commissioner of Detective Branch Sanwar Hossain said, "Nazimuddin worked as a muscleman of Shah Alam and bought 6,000 bighas of land for the River View project of Bashundhara Group at Keraniganj. Most of the land owners were coerced into selling their land." He said Nazimuddin also bought over 662 bighas of land in Cox's Bazar for Bashundhara Group.
Nazimuddin told detectives that he owed Shah Alam around Tk 23 crore.
Nazimuddin started the real-estate business "Hasnabad Housing" in Keraniganj in 1999 and he became Shah Alam's real-estate partner in 2003, Nazimuddin told interrogators.
Sanwar said, "We are collecting evidence which would help us quiz Shah Alam. We will summon him in connection with the case very soon."
ASP of Dakkhin Keraniganj Nur Mohammad said Nazimuddin along with a number of officials of the River View project of Bashundhara is accused in at least five cases filed in connection with land grabbing.
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