Shahinuddin Murder: Police claim ex-MP is the mastermind
MA Awal. Photo: Collected
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Ex-MP MA Awal masterminded the murder of Pallabi trader Shahinuddin. He instructed people to carry out the killing, according to AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Addressing a press conference, he also said Awal had gotten into a dispute with Sahinuddin over the construction of boundary gates and pillars at Awal s Ali Nagar project in Pallabi.
Awal planned to kill Shahinuddin and his staffer Sumon was assigned to execute the plan in return for a huge amount of money. Sumon, with the help of others, hacked Shahinuddin to death on May 16, he said.
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Hefajat’s 2013 Mayhem: Took 8yrs to find evidence as it was ‘big incident’
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Detectives took around eight years just to analyse footage and collect evidence of the mayhem Hefajat carried in 2013 as it was a big incident , said AKM Hafiz Akter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
He said this while responding to a reporter s query at the media centre in the capital s Minto Road yesterday.
The accused in the cases related to the incident are now being arrested in the wake of the investigation, but it may take some more days to complete the probe, said Hafiz, also the chief of DMP DB.