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Ratan Sen Murder

Khulna BNP man arrested from capital

By Staff Correspondent
Shahruzzaman Mortaza. a Khulna district leader of the BNP was arrested In the capt tai Thursday in connection wtth the murder of Ratan Sen. officials said
They said that a team of CID police arrested Mortaza. Joint Secretary of the Khulna city unit of the BNP. from Topkhans Road near the High Court in Dhaka at about 12 noon
Mortaza was being questioned by the CID In Conner tton with the murder of CPB
leader Ratan Sen. they added
Sen. a septuagenarian leader of the CPB In Khulna was stabbed to death In broad daylight by a group of assailants in front of the Khulna Colfectorate Building. July 31
Our Staff Correspondent tn Khulna reports: With the arrest of the BNP leader, the total number of arrests tn connection with the murder stands at
Those arrested earlier were: Prof Nurul Islam of Khulna Commerce College, his brother Abu Baker Siddiqui. Humayun Kabir. Murad. Sha gor. Zakir Hossain. Mahbub, Shahid Abu Hossain. Gulam Rahman and Nasir
Khulna police cordoned off the office of the city unit of the BNP late last month to arrest Mortaza but did not do so for unknown reasons.
Among those arrested. Zakir Hossain and Murad In statements to police and a Magistrate confessed their involvement in Sen s murder
Two more accused are still at large and. according to po lice sources tn Khulna, they might have crossed the border to escape arrest.
The lone eyewitness to Sen's murder, the rickshawpuller Abul Hussain. Identified another arrested Shagor as one of the four assailants during an Identification parade held tn Khulna Jail.
Zakir and Gulam Rahman supplied the alleged killers Information on the movements of Ratan Sen. according to the police.
Zakir Hussain, a student of Sunderban College and an activist of pro-Jamaat Islam! Chhatra Shlbtr. was Ratan Sen's neighbour at Domra of Rupsha thana.
UNB adds: Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner Osman Ali Khan, however, said that the killing of the district CPB leader was "absolutely non-political". It was a murder over land affairs, he said.