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Policemen from outside Feni to quiz arrestees

Staff Correspondent
Amid controversy over the role of Feni police, a team of six police personnel from outside the district have been asked to interrogate the arrestees on remand in connection with the murder of Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haq.
The team led by Additional Deputy Inspector General Mahbubur Rahman from Chittagong and comprised of an additional superintendent and four subinspectors will start working with the local police today, said Paritosh Ghosh, superintendent of Feni police.
"They have been
FROM PAGE 1 summoned as transparency of local police in dealing with the case has been questioned," said the SP.
Sources said the arrestees, including prime suspect Jihad Chowdhury and Abidul Islam Abid, are close to some local police officials.
Abid, who allegedly shot Ekram from close range with a 7.62mm pistol provided by Jihad, is the cousin of Feni-2 Awami League lawmaker Nizam Hazari. Jihad is the joint general secretary of Phulgazi AL and also a close aide to Nizam.
Ekram, who was also president of Phulgazi AL, was shot and then burned alive in his car in broad daylight in Feni on May 20.
Ekram's brother Rezaul Haq lodged a murder case with Feni Police Station on that day accusing Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar, a local BNP leader, and 34 others unnamed people.
He said the officers at Feni Model Police Station are long serving and close to the killers. "They [Feni police) are managed by the killers," he told The Daily Star over phone.
Rezaul said the police station is only around 250 metres away from the spot where the gruesome killing took place, but police came around one hour later.
A Feni court placed Jihad, who was nabbed by police on Sunday, on eightday remand yesterday. Senior Judicial Magistrate Khairul Amin passed the order after investigators produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer, reports our Feni correspondent.
During primary interrogation, eight of the arrestees picked up by Rab confessed to the elite force that Jihad along with Abidul Islam Abid and Sohel masterminded the murder.
Also yesterday, the district units of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal held separate press conferences. Both the organisations provided photographs of Abid and other arrestees, showing their involvement in the opposite parties.
In another development in Phulgazi, Ekram's followers torched the house of Belal Hossain, general secretary of AL Anandapur union unit and also a member of the union parishad, for his alleged involvement in the killing.
Locals said Belal was a close aide to Ekram but their relationship started deteriorating following the Phulgazi upazila polls early this year.
However, none was hurt in the fire as the family already had left.
Meanwhile, Rab arrested one Sajib at Feni in possession of a pistol which the law enforcers say had been used in the murder of Ekram.