Police have been granted another four days to question Awami League MP Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony over killing of two men in downtown Dhaka.
Published : 24 Jun 2015, 12:27 PM
The court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman send 42-year-old Rony to police custody for four more days on Wednesday. Police had sought for seven days.
On Jun 13, Rony was sent back to jail by the court after four days in police custody.
Auto-rickshaw driver Yakub Ali and rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim were killed in random firing from a black SUV around 1:45am on Apr 14, according to police.
Rony is said to have fired on them under the ' influence of drugs’.
Detective Branch arrested Rony and the vehicle’s driver Imran Fakir on May 31 for their suspected involvement in the killings.
Media reported that the vehicle involved in the incident belonged to the ruling party lawmaker Pinu Khan .
According to confessional statements given to the court by Rony’s friend Kamal Mahmud, who was in the car during the shooting, and the driver, Imran Fakir, it was the MP’s son, who fired at the people in the street.
Another friend of Rony, Tiger Kamal, also provided details about the incident to the police, said DMP Joint Commissioner Islam.
Police said that ballistic report reveals that the calibre of bullets found on the victims’ bodies and that of Rony’s pistol’s matched.