AL leader Tipu murder case
Mastermind Musa brought back home from Oman
Friday, 10 June 2022
Sumon Shikdar Musa, the mastermind of Awami League leader Zahidul Islam Tipu murder, has been brought back home from Oman, reports UNB.
A team of DB police with Musa arrived at Chattogram Airport from Oman around 11am on Thursday, said Rifat Rahman Shamim, deputy commissioner of DB police, Motijheel division.
On June 6, three policemen-additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, DB (Motijheel zone) Shahidur Rahman Ripon, additional deputy commissioner Rafiqul Islam and assistant superintendent of police Foyez Uddin of NCB Department of Police headquarters went to Muscat for bringing Musa home.
According to the DB police, Musa went to Dubai on March 12 after hiring one Shamim Molla to kill AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu. Later, he fled to Oman.
On May 17, Oman police arrested Musa upon request of Bangladesh DB police.
On the night of March 24, Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital in Dhaka.
Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu's driver was also injured in the firing.
They were all stuck in a traffic jam in the area when a biker wearing a helmet and a mask appeared from nowhere and fired at them.
The next day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder.