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Police suspect friend forlsha’s murder

Star Report
Police investigating into the murder tn the city Wednesday of 15-year-old schoolboy Ishtiftq Ahmed Isha were suspecting the involvement of at least one of the victim's friends in the gruesome crime.
According to a source, who requested anonymity, police were scouring the city and suburbs for one of Isha's so-called friends who police suspect. along with three or four accomplices, slaughtered Isha with a kitchen boti after apparently failing to achieve their main mission — to commit a robbery.
Police said, their interrogation of preliminary suspects, as well as clues found at the place of occurrence pointed the finger at someone who until late Jast night had not been ar-
rested. However, a senior police personnel expressed optimism that the riddle to the murder would be solved in a day or two.
Police believe, this friend or acquaintance of Isha, taking advantage of the fact that isba’s house usually remained empty with his father Sheikh Mazhar All away In Khulna on duty and schoolteacher mother Shawlat Begum Ila going off to work everyday, perhaps coaxed the youngster into allowing him , and some of his associates into the house on the pretext of watching some adult movies on the VCP— a tempting proposition for an adolescent like Isha.
' Police on Wednesday also recovered a pornographic video cassette while the VTP was reported missing front Flat No 701-2 on the sixth floor of the nine-storey government rest house Elyseum at Hatkhota Road
Police said they had found clear clues that those respon sible for the murder had tried to break open the wardrobe in the bedroom. Other places had also been rummaged for valuables which they could not find.
The source added that investigating officers were now more or less convinced that Ambia Begum, the 40-year-old maidservant dismissed by Isha s mother three days before the crime, had nothing to do with the murder. Nor for that matter, police believe, was Harun Mia. th6 receptionist at the apartment block, had anything to do with it. Both were arrested Wednesday.
Ambia Begum, who had returned to the house of her tormer mistress on the day of occurrence, was initially accused by the slain boy's mother of the murder. Ambia insisted on her innocence, saying she had returned to seek forgiveness but found the door to the flat ajar with nobody inside
Next-door neighbours In formed police and newsmen Wednesday that Ambia had informed them around 11 am that the door to Sheikh Mazhar All s fiat was open. She even asked them for a lock to seal the door and then went to the Quamrunnissa Girls School. There she informed Shawiat Begum about the open door She also accompanied her back to the flat, only to be accused of the crime by the victim s mother who had be-< ome hysterical On discovering i he body of her only child lying ■ a pool of blood on the bed-■ >ni floor.
Earlier yesterday. Detective
Branch (DB) police continued interrogation of three persons in connection with the mur der.
The DB produced Ambia Begum and Harun Mia before the Chief Metropolitan Magistracy yesterday. At the request of the police the court placed the two preliminary suspects on four days' remand for questioning.
Harun Mia was picked up for questioning after a look at the register revealed that he had failed lo enter the names of any visitors entering the apartment complex on the day.
According to DB sources, one Mobassher Hossain Caesar. 19. reported to be a friend of the slain Isha. was also brought to the Minto Road office of the DB for questioning. However, police insisted Caesar, son of one Motahar Hossain, a Deputy Secretary in the Relief ministry and resident of the same Elyseum apartments, was not under arrest. .
Meanwhile, the parertts took Isha's body, after autopsy at the Mitford Hospital, to Dargapara in Rajshahi town for burtaj vesterday.