Cop killer was Shibir leader

Police yesterday claimed that the person who had stabbed to death assistant sub-inspector Ibrahim Mollah in the capital's Gabtoli four days ago is a former Chhatra Shibir leader from Bogra.

Law enforcers got the name of Enamul Haque alias Kamal, ex-president of Adamdighi upazila Chhatra Shibir, from his detained friend Masud Rana Suman, who accompanied the Shibir leader to Dhaka from the northern district.

Enamul, 25, attacked the ASI of Darus Salam Police Station with a knife after the cop had stopped the two at Gabtoli police check post and began searching the Shibir leader's bag. The incident occurred minutes after the duo got off a bus from Bogra, according to police.

Cops caught Masud, but Enamul managed to flee. The ASI later died of his wounds at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.

Masud, 24, is a Shibir activist of Keshorta village in the district's Adamdighi upazila, said law enforcers.

"We got information from Masud that Enamul carried improvised grenades in his bag," said Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. Enamul also possessed a firearm, he added.

Tipped off by Masud, police recovered five improvised grenades from a house rented by the two at Kamrangirchar on the outskirts of the capital, said the detective.

Enamul was accused in a case filed under the speedy trial act for carrying out subversive activities in Bogra during the BNP-Jamaat-led movement over the January 5, 2014 national polls. He has been on bail in the case.

For the last few months, he kept himself aloof from the people in his area and didn't even contact his family, which is associated with Jamaat-Shibir politics, said cops.

Enamul was a student of Bogra Govt Azizul Haque College and a resident of a mess where 21 people were rounded up by cops after the killing of the ASI. 

Police on Sunday raided his house at Kusumbi village in Adamdighi upazila and arrested four other Jamaat-Shibir men. 

The DB joint commissioner said the materials, size, and even the containers of the unexploded grenades recovered as evidence from the capital's Hossaini Dalan were similar to those recovered from Kamrangirchar.

A man was killed and scores of people were injured in Saturday's explosions at Hossaini Dalan where Shia Muslims were preparing to bring out a Tajia procession on the occasion of Ashura.