Arrestee confesses killing stock trader
A youth arrested for the murder of stock market investor Kazi Zia Hayder Ali confessed to his crime before the press at DMP Media Centre in the capital yesterday.
Detective Branch of police on Wednesday night arrested Imran Hossain Jitu in connection with the murder committed on January 21.
On January 21, a gang of robbers shot dead Hayder Ali, a former expatriate in South Korea, in broad daylight at his residence in Mirpur.
Jitu said he along with 10 others went to Hayder's house to realise extortion money, which they had been demanding for long.
According to Mashiur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of DB, the gang broke into Hayder's house and held his wife and daughter at gunpoint while rummaging the flat for valuables.
At one stage, his daughter and wife managed to get out of the flat and shouted for help. The extortionists started fleeing one by one when neighbours rushed to the flat.
“Hayder caught one of us on the staircase while we were fleeing, so I shot Hayder to free my accomplice,” Jitu said.
Recently Jitu served six years in jail in connection with a robbery case and is accused in three more cases, police said.
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