Mitu murder: Probe at final stage

Staff Correspondent: The probe in former Superintendent of Police Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case has reached the final stage, claimed police.

Md Kamruzzaman, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch, also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, said the probe into the case is now at final stage.

"All clues are being scrutinized. Complainant Babul Akter, Mitu's parents and many of their close relatives who frequently travelled their homes were interrogated in the case," he said.

Police sources said former SP Babul Akter was yet not charged in the case. He, however, can be interrogated anytime over SI Akram murder.

An official involved in Mitu murder probe said on condition anonymity that Babul Akter has been kept under police surveillance.

Sources said that though Mitu's father, former police inspector Mosharrof Hossain did not suspect Babul over the incident, but now he lost his belief on him

On June 5, 2016, bike riding assailants waylaid SP Babul’s wife Mitu at OR Nizam Road near GEC intersection in the city while she was going to board her son to his school bus from their residence.

Later, they stabbed and shot Mitu to death and fled from the spot.

Babul filed the murder case which the Detective Branch (DB) of CMP is investigating at present.

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