Bhola confesses to supplying arms

Staff Correspondent: The assailant, Ehteshamul Haque Bhola today has confessed to supplying fire arms which was used in the fatal attack on Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.

Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operations) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Devdas Bhattacharya made the disclosure in a press conference on Tuesday noon.

He said that police detained the arms supplier from Razakhali area under Baklia police station in the port city on Tuesday morning. Later, following his information, two fire arms were recovered from his cohort Monir.

Meanwhile, the law enforcers detained Bhola`s cohort Monir.

Devdas Bhattacharya also said that the detainee confessed to supplying arms and handed over to Monir after the murder.

Mitu, 32, was stabbed and shot dead by three men in GEC intersection area in the port city when she took her son to his school bus on June 5, the same day her husband was supposed to report at the Police Headquarters as the newly promoted SP.

risingbd/Chittagong/Jun 28, 2016/Rezaul/Nasim