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Nitai Murder

Rab nabs six more suspects

Staff Correspondent
The mystery surrounding the killing of Dr Narayan Chandra Dutta Nitai on August 23 deepened as six suspects arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion claimed responsibility for the murder before the media yesterday.
Earlier, four men detained by the Detective Branch of police on August 25 and another on Saturday admitted to being involved in the murder of Nitai, assistant professor of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), at his Mohakhali residence in the capital.
Both the groups, however, named one person, Masum Mintu, 24, arrested on Saturday by DB, as the one who had stabbed the physician, who also owned a private clinic named Reliance Medical and Services in Dhaka.
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A few Rab sources, meanwhile, said two doctors of the NIDCH had links with the killing as prior to the incident they had communicated several times with the manager of Nitai's clinic, his driver and assistant.
One of the two doctors had already been arrested by Rab, a Rab source said, wishing anonymity. But the Rab authorities denied it.
The arrestees in Rab custody are Nitai's manager Saifur Rahman, 36, driver Kamrul Hasan Arun, 27, assistant Tariqul Islam, 24, and three others --Bakul Miah, 26, Rafiqul Islam, 24, and Sayeed, 25.
At a press briefing yesterday at the Rab headquarters in Dhaka, Arun said he had hired Bakul, Rafiqul, Sayeed, Hossain and Mintu on the instructions of manager Saifur and medical assistant Tariqul to loot Tk 20 lakh in cash and 108 tolas of gold from the doctor's house.
"We were five in the gang. Bakul, Sayeed, Hossain, Mintu and I entered the house. Mintu stabbed the doctor to death," Rafiqul said.
Saifur, however, claimed that he had not been involved.
Another four arrestees — Peda Mashud, 25, Saidul, 37, Pichhi Kalam, 26, and Faisal, 30 — at the briefing arranged by DB on August 25 said they had been seven in a group. Four of them had entered the house while the other three had remained outside.
Mintu was the one who had stabbed the doctor, resulting in his death, they
said.
Mintu after his arrest on Saturday said his associates Sayeed and Bakul had taken him to rob, with them, Nitai's house at NIDCH compound at dead of night.
He also said Nitai's driver had informed them of the cash from the sale of a piece of land and gold and that a group of seven had attempted the robbery.
Both Rab and DB have been claiming that they have arrested the real killers.
At yesterday's press briefing, Rab's Legal and Media Wing Director Commander M Sohail and Director of Intelligence Wing Lt Col Ziaul Hasan said there might be many other people involved in the killing.
An investigation would reveal the truth and the real criminals, they said.
Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner (DB-South); Mollah Nazrul Islam, DC of DB-North; Nitai's wife Lucky Dutta and his mother were also present there.
Lucky said she did not know who could be the real criminals. "I just want that the killers are punished."
There were neither 108 tolas of gold nor was Tk 20 lakh in cash at their house, she added.
The DB officials did not make any comment at the briefing. They did not even respond when The Daily Star tried to get their comments over the phone.
Earlier on August 25, Rab arrested one Kamal Hossain. But DB said he was not one of the killers.