Imam Murder
Three arrested
Detective Branch (DB) police early yesterday arrested three people in connection with the murder of head imam Hafez Mohammad Ishaque of Police Officers' Quarter Jame Mosque.
Ishaque's shackle tied decomposed body was found in an apartment at Shewrapara in the city on January 1.
DB arrested Bayejit Kazi, 42, from Gopinathpur in Kazipara of Gopalganj district; Nazim Uddin, 40, from city's Nayapaltan area; and Uzzal, 21, from Noorer chala of city's Badda area and produced them at a press briefing yesterday.
DB claimed that Ishaque had a feud with his cousin Haji Abdur Rahim while acting as an arbiter to dissolve a problem between Rahim and another cousin Ilias over the ownership of a salt processing factory two years back.
Rahim, an expatriate of Malaysia, masterminded the killing and hired professional killers for the job, DB claimed.
Police claimed that all arrestees were professionals and they confessed to commit the murder during primary interrogation.
Senior Assistant Commissioner of DB Mohammad Shahidullah, after the press briefing, told The Daily Star that on December 20, Bayzid brought Ishaque to the house, which he rented on December 6 for the murder, to perform milad. Ishaque's brother Mohammad Shuaib told the correspondent that Rahim bought the factory at Potia of Chittagong from Ilias for Tk 1 crore 35 lakh three years ago.
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