Prime suspect in ex-brigadier general Waji murder held, RAB says

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said it has detained the prime suspect in the murder of former Bangladesh Army officer Waji Ahmed Chowdhury.

Waji Ahmed Chowdhury

Additional Superintendent of Police of RAB-4 Aziz Bin Jalil said 35-year-old Ahad Ali has been detained late on Wednesday from the Dhaka's Pallabi.

The elite police unit claimed that he was the 'mastermind' of the murder but did not disclose any other details.

Chowdhury, a former brigadier general, was found murdered in his home at the Defence Officers' Housing Society (DOHS) in the capital's Mohakhali on Oct 3.

The 76-year-old, who hailed from Sylhet's Golapganj, retired from the army in 1992.

His son had found him unconscious and rushed to the Combined Military Hospital, where the doctors declared him dead.

Police said there was black bruise on Waji Ahmed's throat and wound marks on the chest and leg.

Autopsy reports by the Dhaka Medical College Hospital concluded that he was strangled to death.

His nephew Reshad Ahmed Chowdhury started a case accusing the house help 'Abdullah'.

According to the case details, the youth could not be traced since the incident and TV, mobile phone and laptop were missing from the home.