Rapid Action Battalion on Friday took seven accused in retired army major Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan killing to its custody from Cox’s Bazar jail for interrogation.
Cox’s Bazar jail superintendent Mokammel Hossain confirmed the matter.
He said that a team of RAB-15, led by newly-appointed investigation officer Mohammad Khairul Islam, an assistant superintend of police, took the accused to its custody from jail around 10:00am.
Before taking the accused to RAB-15 office on the outskirt of Cox’s Bazar district town, RAB team took them to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital for a health check-up.
The seven accused are police’s assistant sub-inspector Liton Mia, constables Safanur Karim, Kamal Hossain and Abdullah Al Mamun and another three witnesses named in a police case over the killing — Nurul Amin, 21, Nizam Uddin, 42, and Ayas Uddin, 40.
The four police personnel were in jail following their surrender in the murder case filed by the slain major’s sister Sharmen Shahria Ferdush on August 5 with the judicial magistrate court in Cox’s Bazar.
RAB arrested the three witnesses on Tuesday at Marishbunia area of Teknaf in the afternoon over their suspected link to the killing.
Cox’s Bazar’s senior judicial magistrate Tamanna Farah on August 12 placed each of these seven accused on a seven-day remand after hearing separate petitions.
Sinha, 36, who took early retirement from the Bangladesh Army in November 2018, was shot dead at a police checkpoint on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive at Shamlapur under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on July 31.
According to rights group Odhikar, more than 150 people have been killed so far by law enforcement officers this year.
