Khokan shown arrested in bus driver killing case
BNP leader Khairul Kabir Khokan was shown arrested yesterday in a case filed for killing a bus driver by torching his vehicle on April 21, in the capital's Khilgaon, on the eve of a hartal.
Police also sought a 10-day remand to interrogate him about the incident.
Fourth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman fixed June 12 for the hearing on the remand prayer and asked the police to submit a progress report of investigation into the case.
The court also sent Khokan to prison and asked the jail authorities to produce him before the court for the next hearing.
Khokan was first arrested on May 17 during the opposition-called hartal protesting an order sending 33 BNP leaders including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jail.
He was re-arrested on Sunday outside the gates of Dhaka Central Jail right after he was released on bail in another case filed for setting a vehicle ablaze on April 19 in front of BNP central office at Nayapaltan.
In the remand prayer, Moksedur Rahman, sub-inspector of Khilgaon Police Station and investigation officer (IO) of the case, said Khokan was “indirectly involved” in the death of the bus driver.
Moreover, the arrestees who were earlier detained revealed clues about Khokan's involvement with the killing, the IO said.
Bus driver Badar Ali Beg, 48, was burned alive while he was asleep inside his bus that set alight in front of Khidmah Hospital on the afternoon of April 21.
After the incident, Khilgaon police filed a murder case accusing 31 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami of which police has so far arrested eight people including three Jamaat leaders.
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