Bangladesh:
RAB has arrested the parents of Faisal Karim Masud, the prime accused in the attempted murder case of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, according to an official statement.
The arrests were confirmed in a RAB press release issued shortly after 1:30am on Tuesday night.
The statement said members of RAB-10 carried out a special operation around 5:30am in the Hasnabad Housing area under South Keraniganj police station in Dhaka district, during which Faisal’s father Md Humayun Kabir, 70, and mother Mosa Hasi Begum, 60, were detained.
Osman Hadi was shot last Friday when assailants opened fire from a moving motorcycle at a rickshaw in the capital’s Purana Paltan area. He is the convener of Inqilab Mancha and a prospective candidate for the Dhaka-8 constituency.
His condition remains critical, and he was taken to Singapore on Monday for advanced medical treatment.
Investigators have identified Faisal Karim Masud, a former leader of the banned student organisation Chhatra League, and his associate Alamgir Sheikh as the main suspects in the attack. According to investigation-related sources, both men fled to India after the incident.
RAB said preliminary findings show that Faisal is the third of four children of Humayun and Hasi. He frequently visited the Agargaon residence of his sister, Mosa Jesmin Akter.
On the night of the incident, Faisal reportedly went to his sister’s flat carrying a bag. Later, he threw the bag into an open space inside the building and asked his nephew, 18-year-old Jamil, to retrieve it.
The press release further stated that Faisal discarded one of his two mobile phones from the rooftop of the building and handed the other phone to his mother. He later met his parents there.
Finding the location unsafe, Faisal left Agargaon and moved first to Mirpur and then to Shahjadpur, where he stayed at the residence of his cousin Arif, the son of Humayun’s brother.
RAB said Humayun arranged a CNG-run auto-rickshaw for Faisal to transport the bag and also provided him with some cash. Afterwards, the couple moved to their younger son Hasan Mahmud’s house in Keraniganj.
During this time, they purchased and used two SIM cards from Jatrabari to avoid detection, the statement added.
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