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4 criminals held for Tapan murder

Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Four 'notorious criminals' were arrested in Khulna city and Bagerhat on Saturday in relation to the cases filed for the murder of fish farmer Tapan Bhattacharya and rape of three women of his family at Komorpur village under Jatrapur union in Bagerhat.
The arrestees are Anis, 34, Kalu Shaikh, 32, Idris Shaikh, 36, and Mahadev Dutta, 45. Mahadev is a jeweller of Helatala road under Khulna Police Station.
On a tip-off, Bagerhat Sadar and Detective Branch police launched a search in Labonchora area on Saturday with the assistance of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP). Notorious criminals Kalu Shaikh and Anis were arrested from the area.
Anis admitted to have been directly involved in the murder and
gang-rape during interrogation, police said. He informed the police where the gold ornaments they had looted from Tapan's house were sold. Police then arrested Mahadev from Helatala road, who told them that he had purchased about 13 tola of gold ornaments from Anis and sold it to a customer.
Police in the same afternoon arrested Idris Shaikh, a van driver by profession and allegedly a notorious criminal, from near Rupsha Cinema Hall. He was taken to Bagerhat on Saturday night for interrogation.
Anis, Kalu and Idris told police during interrogation that an influential young man of Bagerhat hired them and four others to carry out the operation at the Komorpur house of Niranjan Bhattacharya.
Niranjan, elder brother of slain fish farmer Tapan, the prime target, said Idris Ali who claimed to be a supporter of the ruling BNP.
Earlier on March 11, Bagerhat police arrested Abdul Jalil and Zohra Begum, parents of Idris, from Komorpur village. Jalil and Zohra's statements were recorded under 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code in the Court of First Class Magistrate after expiry of a three-day remand.
Both of them in their judicial confession said their son Idris was among six others who were involved in the murder and rape. "After committing murder and rape they stayed in my house at night and left Komorpur in the small hours of the following morning," Jalil said.
Jalil and Zohra have been made the main prosecution witness of this case, said Officer-in-Charge of Bagerhat Sadar Police Station Ishaque Ali Dukhu, also the investigation officer of the case.
Idris also told the police that the murder and gang-rape were planned beforehand. He said they had also taken four grenades, but did not use them, as they did not face any resistance.