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Arrests made in Rubel murder case

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Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted simultaneous drives in the city’s Mohammadpur area and Sreepur in Gazipur district on Sunday and arrested two alleged accused in Rubel murder case of Darussalam Police Station on Sunday.

The arrestees were identified as Abdul Jalil and Abdul Mannan.

Based on secret information, a Mirpur Zonal team of DB (Mirpur Division) conducted the simultaneous drives on Sunday and arrested them from Sreepur police station area of Gazipur district and Mohammadpur police station area of the capital.

Briefing reporters at the DMP media center on Sunday, Joint Commissioner(Cyber and Special Crimes and DB-North) Mohammad Harun-ur-Rashid said the victim Rubel Mia went missing from Lalmonirhat Sadar area at around 10 am on January 5. Later the decomposed body of the victim was recovered from Room No. 817 on the 5th floor of a 10-storey under construction building of Government Bangla College under Darussalam Police Station on January 13 at around 6 pm.

The victim’s uncle filed a murder case with the Darussalam police station on January 14. Detective Mirpur zonal team started investigating the case, he said.

He also said that during the investigation of the case, Abdul Jalil and Abdul Mannan were arrested with the help of information technology.

During primary interrogation, arrested Abdul Jalil revealed that they had caught the victim Rubel from the under construction building on suspicion of being a thief on January 9 at around 4:00 pm. The two arrestees tied the victim’s hand with a rope and strangled him with the same rope to recover the stolen mobile phone and money. As a result, when the victim died, the detainees turned off their mobile phones and fled, the Joint Commissioner (DB-North) said quoting the two arrestees.

Source: United News of Bangladesh