Tipu murder: DB makes headway in probe

Investigators have found some vital clues to the killing of Jahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League, and hope to soon inform the media, said the Detective Branch of police.

"The DB is working with consideration of all motives related to Tipu's murder," Rifat Rahman Shamim, deputy commissioner of the DB's Motijheel Division, told The Daily Star.

Asked, AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of DB said, they would inform the media soon.

Apart from DB, the Rapid Action Battalion and the Criminal Investigation Department of police are also working to solve the killing.

On Friday, Khandaker Al Moin, director (legal and media wing) of Rab, said they found some evidence and possible motives behind the murder.

Local ruling party men have alleged that law enforcers picked up some ward-level  leaders of AL and its front organisations. However, law enforcers didn't claim any arrest over the incident as of yet.

Tipu was shot dead while he was returning home at Khilgaon Bagichha by his microbus from his restaurant in Motijheel AGB Colony area around 10:15pm on Thursday.

At that time, a rickshaw passenger Samia Afran Jamal Prity, 22, was also shot. She was later declared dead in hospital.

Tipu's wife Farhana Islam Doly, also the councillor of wards 1, 11, 12 (Motijheel area) of Dhaka South City Corporation, filed a case with Shahjahanpur Police Station in connection with the killing.

Party activists and family members said political feuds within the party could be a reason behind Tipu's murder.