Discovery of Pradip's drug links led to Sinha murder, says RAB
15 formally charged over Sinha killing No proof of narcotics charges against Shipra, Sefat
Monday, 14 December 2020
Retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan was killed because he "came to know about Teknaf police's OC Pradip Kumar Das's links to drug business, the RAB has said, reports bdnews24.com.
The basic finding of the investigation was that it was a "planned" murder, said Lt Col Ashique Billah, spokesman for the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
"It happened because Sinha came to know about Pradip's arbitrariness and yaba trade," he said at a press conference in Dhaka on Sunday after the investigation officer charged Pradip and 14 others in the case.
The others formally charged in the case include Liakat Ali, the Baharchhara Police Camp inspector who fired the shots at a checkpoint in Cox's Bazar on Jul 31.
The former army officer had been staying at Nilima Resort in Himchhari of Cox's Bazar with three others for around a month to film a travel documentary.
The RAB has pressed formal charges in court against Pradip Kumar Das, Liakat Ali and 13 others over the killing of Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
The case's investigation officer, RAB-15's ASP Md Khairul Islam, filed the charge-sheet with the court of Cox's Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Tamanna Farah on Sunday.
"In addition to the 14 arrested in connection with the case, another suspect has also been added to the charge-sheet," he said.
Apart from Pradip and Liakat, the charge-sheet also named SI Nanda Dulal Rakkhit, constables Safanur Karim, Kamal Hossain, Abdullah Al-Mamun and Mohammed Mostafa, APBN's SI Mohammad Shahjahan, constables Mohammed Rajib and Mohammed Abdullah, police witnesses Nurul Amin, Nezam Uddin and Mohammed Ayaz, and former Teknaf police constable Rubel Sharma and ASI Sagar Deb.
Investigators have found 'no proof' in police's narcotics charges against Stamford University students Shipra Debnath and Shahedul Islam Sefat who were co-workers of the slain former army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
RAB officer Biman Chandra Karmakar submitted an investigation report to the court of Cox's Bazar's senior judicial magistrate on Sunday.