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Lawyer Chandan accidental victim

Court told about 7-murder in N'ganj

Staff correspondent
The then Rab official Lt Col Tareque Sayeed ordered another Rab man, Maj Arif Hossain, to pick up senior lawyer Chandan Sarkar, who was recording on his mobile phone the abduction of Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam, the prosecution told a Narayanganj court yesterday.
Chandan was not on the hit list of Narayanganj city councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sevenmurdercase, Prosecution Counsel Hasan Ferdous Jewel said at the court.
When Arif noticed Chandan recording the incident, he called Tareque who asked him to bring Chandan as well.
Jewel was placing arguments in support of a prayer for placing Tareque on remand for the fifth time. Tareque was present at the court.
On condition of anonymity, police officials told The Daily Star that another ex-Rab officer, Lt Commander Masud Rana, had in fact objected to killing Chandan as the plan was only to kill Nazrul Islam.
He then contacted Tareque and expressed his concern, only to be snubbed, said the sources.
When the seven were brought to Shimrail in Narayanganj after the abduction, Rana parted company with the group, they said.
Police officials gleaned the information while interrogating the three ex-Rab men - Lt Col Tareque, Lt Commander Rana and Maj Arif -- who were dismissed and arrested over allegations ot involvement or the seven murders in Narayanganj.
Maj Arif alone had killed the seven. He suffocated them with polythene bags and then strangled them, said the sources.
Lt Col Tareque joined the group later during the dumping of the bodies into the Shitalakkhya river, they said.
Tareque hatched the plan in collaboration with Nur Hossain, stated court sub-inspector Ashraf, who read out the remand prayer from the prosecution at the court yesterday.
Tareque was about to make a confessional statement. But he changed his mind at the last moment
after he was produced before the court yesterday, Investigating Officer Mamunur Rashid Mondal, also officer-in-charge of Narayanganj detective branch of police, told The Daily Star.
Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Begum Chadni Rupom placed Tareque on remand for five more days following a prayer from police.
On April 27, Nazrul, his three aides Tajul, Liton and Swapan, and his driver Jahangir, and senior lawyer Chandan and his driver Ibrahim were kidnapped about the same time in broad daylight in Narayanganj. Their bodies were later found floating in the Shitalakkhya river.