In a major development related to the Bangladesh MP’s murder case, the chief of Bangladesh’s detective department, Harun-or-Rashid, has recently announced that the main conspirator, Akhtaruzzaman, may have fled to the US via Kathmandu and Dubai.
Later, discussing his plans, Harun-or-Rashid is thinking of collaborating with Interpol and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to apprehend the suspect.
Meanwhile, to delve deeper into the investigation, a team of Bangladeshi detectives arrived in India.
After arriving in the country, they interacted with the reporters and said,
“The main conspirator, Akhtaruzzaman, may have escaped from Kathmandu to the US via Dubai… We are trying to trace him through Interpol and will go to the CID office. We will have a meeting with the officers of CID….will try to interrogate the arrested accused so that we can get more information,” said Harun-or-Rashid upon landing at Kolkata Airport on Sunday.
Talking about their law, they also added that in their criminal act, there is a section called Extra Territorial Offence, which means that if an individual commits a crime outside their country, they have the power to investigate those crimes.
However, when discussing the complexity of this case, he mentioned that his visit to India was to examine the crime scene, analyze CCTV footage, and interrogate the arrested suspects to gather more information.
Earlier, CID had recently declared that they had arrested one of the suspects in this case, who is a butcher.
Confessing to the deed during the interrogation, he was the one who had taken off all the skin, minced it, and chopped the parts of the body to hide its identity.
Issuing the statement, the police stated,
“The assailants brought a butcher named Jihad (alias Siam), who had been living in Mumbai illegally for many years. Two months ago, he was brought to Kolkata by an American citizen of Bangladeshi origin, Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen. This Shaheen is the mastermind of this planned heinous murder….”Then, they removed all the flesh from the body in the flat and minced it to destroy his identity, and then they put everything in polythene packs. They also chopped the bones into small pieces. They then took those packets out of the flat and dropped them around Kolkata and surrounding areas using different modes of transport, the police said in their statement on Thursday.
So far, the Bangladesh Police has arrested three persons in connection with this case.
