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N'GANJ 7 MURDER

Rab's Col Zia questioned for 4 hours

Staff Correspondent
The government committee probing the seven-murder in Narayanganj questioned Additional Director
General Col Ziaul Ahsan of Rapid Action Battalion for four hours yesterday.
At the secretariat, the committee asked him about the sensational abduction and murder of Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam, his four aides, senior lawyer Chandan Sarkar and his driver in late April.
Three Rab officials, Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Major Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana, were arrested in this connection after they were fired from their respective forces. They confessed to their crimes and are in jail now.
Sources had then told The Daily Star that the trio in their confessional statements mentioned a high-ranking Rab official.
A probe-committee member preferring not to be named yesterday said they had asked the Rab ADG whether Rab headquarters had any links with the incident.
After the meeting with the committee, Col Zia told reporters that he had told the probe body everything it wanted to know.
When asked if the committee had asked him about his involvement in the incident, Col Zia said he would not say anything about it.
"The investigators are experienced and skilled. I hope they will investigate the matter in a proper way," he said.
Probe body chief Shahjahan Ali Mollah told reporters that the Rab official was questioned because he is
the chief of Rab's operations wing. "Whenever Rab personnel go on an operation, as the chief of the wing he is entitled to know about the matter," said Mollah, adding that they have recorded Col Zia's statement.
He refused to disclose what Col Zia had said in the statement for the sake of their enquiry.
The committee has so far questioned around 350 people.
The seven deceased were abducted around the same time on April 27. Three days later, bodies of six of them were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river. The other body was recovered from the river the following day.
Nazrul's father-in-law, Shahidul Islam, had claimed that Nur Hossain, a councillor of Narayanganj City Corporation ward-4, and some others had given a number of Rab officials aroundTk 6 crore to have Nazrul killed.
Nur Hossain was arrested in India last month and is in a Kolkata jail.
Replying to a query, Shahjahan Ali Mollah told the BBC Bangla Service that he hopped Nur Hossain would be brought back in a few days, as the government was working on the issue.
"Naturally, we have to talk with him after his return," he said.