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56 Feni cops transferred

Another 3 arrestees make confession in Ekram killing

Staff Correspondent
Amid controversy over the role of Feni police, intra-district transfers of 56 policemen were made yesterday, days after the gruesome murder of Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque.
Of the transferred, 26 including six sub-inspectors (SI) and an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) are of Feni Model Police Station that is investigating the murder case.
Also yesterday, three more arrestees confessed to their crimes while the Detective Branch (DB) of police detained another man in connection with the killing. The shuffle in Feni police comes a day before a daylong hartal in Phulgazi called by the upazila unit Awarni League for today. Ekram was the president of the unit.
Earlier on May 26, a team of six police personnel from outside the district was asked to interrogate the arrestees on remand in connection with the murder. Additional Deputy Inspector General Mahbubur Rahman of Chittagong range led the team.
They were summoned, according to Superintendent Paritosh Ghosh of Feni police, as transparency of local police in dealing with the case had been questioned.
This time, however, he claimed that the shuffle had no link with the murder, and that it was a "routine work", reports our Feni correspondent.
The transferred policemen include 18 Sis and ASIs while the rest are constables.
Contacted, Nawsher Ali, deputy inspector general of police (Chittagong range), said the transfers were internal and the SP required no approval of the higher authority for this.
He added all the policemen were posted inside the district.
Ekram was shot and burned alive in his car in broad daylight on May 20.
Ekram's brother Rezaul Haq lodged a case with Feni Model Police Station the same day, accusing local BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury' Minar and 34 unnamed people.
Later, he told The Daily Star that some officers at Feni Police Station had long been serving there and were "managed" by the killers.
Sources said the arrestees, including prime suspect Jihad Chowdhury and Abidul Islam Abid, are close to some local police officials.
Two Sis and two constables were transferred from Phulgazi Police Station.
The others were transferred from Daganbhuiyan, Parshuram, Sonagazi and Chhagalnaiya police stations and the Detective Branch, the Special Branch, Sonagazi police outpost and traffic police.
Meanwhile, Ziaul Islam Bappi, Jahidul Islam and Abdur Rauf, who were arrested following the murder, gave confessional statements before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Khairul Amin yesterday.
With this, 10 arrestees so far have admitted to their involvement in the killing.
Police are also interrogating 11 more arrestees, including Minar, Jihad Chowdhury a nd cou nci 1 lor Sh ibI u.
In another development yesterday, the DB arrested Ashraful Kabir Nayan from Feni's Birinchi area.
The detectives said Nayan was directly involved in the killing.
Police are also looking for local AL leader Jahangir Adel and Ziaul Alam Mister, a bodyguard of Feni-2 AL lawmaker Nizam Haza ri, according to sources.
After interrogating some of the arrestees and scrutinising a video footage of the incident, police have found the duo's links with the murder, sources said.
Meanwhile, Nizam Hazari, general secretary of Feni district AL, and Abdur Rahman, president of the district AL, met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence, Gono Bhaban, last night, party sources said.
However, it could not be known what they discussed with the premier and what was the attitude of Hasina towards Nizam Hazari during the meeting.