Police official Mamun murder: Arav Khan, 7 others get life term

A Dhaka court has sentenced eight people, including Dubai’s prominent gold trader Arav Khan, to life term imprisonment in the murder case of Inspector Mamun Imran Khan of Special Branch (SB) of police.

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zakir Hossain Ghalib handed down the verdict on Thursday (April 17).

Earlier, after hearing the arguments from both the prosecution and the defence on February 18, the court had set the verdict date for March 5. However, as the verdict was not ready on that day, the date of the verdict was postponed to March 18. Since the verdict was not ready that day, the court set April 9 as the date for the verdict. Finally, the court fixed today (April 17) for pronouncing the verdict.

During the trial of the case, 26 out of 38 witnesses testified.

The accused in the case are Dubai-based gold trader Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan, his wife Suraiya Akhter Keya, Rahmat Ullah, Swapan Sarkar, Didar Pathan, Mizan Sheikh, Atiq Hasan, Sarwar Hossain and two minor girls. Among the accused, Rabiul and his wife are absconding. The rest are in jail. And the two minor girls are out on bail. Their trial is going on in the juvenile court.

According to case details, the body of Police Inspector Mamun Imran Khan was recovered from the jungles of Gazipur on July 9, 2018. Mamun’s brother Jahangir Alam Khan filed a murder case with the capital’s Banani Police Station. After completing the investigation of the case, the investigating officer (IO) submitted the charge sheet of the case to the court on April 8, 2019. Then, on November 25, 2021, the court framed charges against the accused.