MP's driver 'admits' killing Ibrahim

Kamal Hossain Kala, driver of Awami League lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, yesterday confessed to shooting AL activist Ibrahim Ahmed during a tussle.
Ibrahim's wife Rina Islam alleged that the investigators forced Kala to confess to killing his husband to let Shaon off the hook.
She said the investigators echoed Shaon, who on Wednesday claimed that Ibrahim was killed by a bullet fired during a tussle with Kala.
Kala made the confessional statement before a metropolitan magistrate, who sent him to jail.
In line with a court directive, inspector of Detective Branch of police Shah Moshiur Rahman yesterday filed a murder case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in connection with the incident.
Azim Uddin, sub-inspector of the police station, said Moshiur did not accuse anyone in the case.
Moshiur mentioned that they became sure that Ibrahim was murdered through the statements of driver Kala and Sohel, personal secretary of Shaon.
Kala in his statement said he pulled the trigger during a tussle with Ibrahim leaving the AL activist dead.
However, Kala earlier said Ibrahim, an acquaintance of Shaon, turned up on the scene when he was cleaning a car. He picked up the pistol from the car to check it out. A bullet hit him in the face when he pressed the trigger accidentally.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Moniruzzaman said Kala, during an interrogation, admitted that he pulled the trigger of Shaon's pistol during a tussle with Kala.
Shaon, lawmaker from Bhola-3 constituency, on Wednesday gave another version of the incident in a teleconference with journalists in Bhola.
He claimed that Kala and Ibrahim were checking out the pistol. At one stage Kala tried to snatch it from Ibrahim and accidently pressed the trigger which eventually killed Ibrahim.
Shaon at the MP Hostel yesterday said he was unaware of the fact that Kala pulled the trigger during a tussle with Ibrahim.
"Since I did not know the fact, I asked Kala to file an unnatural death case after the incident. But the investigators will dig up the truth now," he said.
The lawmaker refused to comment further saying he was not present at the spot when the incident happened.
Ibrahim's wife Rina alleged that the investigation is progressing according to Shaon's plan and she was not allowed to file a murder case to keep everything under control of the lawmaker.
She also alleged that police erased fingerprints from the trigger and hide evidence of the murder.
Ibrahim was killed on instructions of Shaon, claimed the wife of the AL activist, who died of gunshot wounds near the parliament building on August 13.
His younger brother Masum filed a murder case with a Dhaka court against 18 people including Shaon and Kala five days after the incident.