Babar interrogated in hospital

A team from the Criminal Investigation Department of Police (CID) yesterday interrogated detained former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar in a prison cell in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital in connection with Sabbir murder case.
Babar has a graft case against him for taking Tk 20 crore as a bribe from the chairman of Bashundhara Group in exchange for dropping a murder charge against the latter's son Safiat Sobhan Sanbeer in connection with the killing of Sabbir.
“A three-member team of CID interrogated the former state minister from 3:45pm to 5:00pm in the prison cell in connection with Sabbir murder case,” Maj Shamsul Haider Siddique, deputy inspector general of prisons (DIG-prisons), told The Daily Star last night.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Arman Ali, also the investigation officer of the case, led the team.
Sources said Sanbeer got into an altercation with Bashundhara Group Director Humayun Kabir Sabbir over a female executive of a mobile phone company in the former's Gulshan flat on July 4, 2006. At one stage of the altercation Sanbeer allegedly hit Sabbir in the head with an empty bottle leaving him dead.
Another Bashundhara Director Shamsuddin Ahmed, and Sanbeer's close aide Khairul Hasan Uzzal were also indicted in the murder case.
Both Sanbeer and Uzzal went into hiding after the incident.
Sources said the case was transferred to CID from the Detective Branch (DB) for investigation on June 12, 2007 soon after Babar had received the bribe from the Bashundhara chairman.
During an earlier interrogation Babar admitted to taking the bribe of Tk 20 crore from the Bashundhara chairman in exchange for not implicating Sanbeer in the murder case.