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Bangladesh’s elite information force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), connected Sunday arrested 3 radical successful transportation with the brutal execution of Hindu businessman Khokon Das successful Shariatpur.The Chief Adviser’s Press Wing said the arrests were made pursuing an overnight cognition carried retired by RAB teams successful Kishoreganj. The accused, identified arsenic Sohag, Rabbi and Palash, were detained astir 1 americium from the Bajitpur area. RAB said the cognition was led by ASP Shahjahan of RAB-14’s CPC-2 unit, according to quality bureau ANI. According to police, Khokon Das, 50, was a pharmacy proprietor and a bKash mobile banking cause successful Keherbhanga Bazaar.
On the nighttime of December 31, helium was returning location aft closing his store erstwhile helium was attacked adjacent the Tilai area, adjacent to his residence.Shariatpur Superintendent of Police Rawnak Jahan said Das was assaulted by 3 to 4 attackers equipped with crisp weapons. He sustained aggregate injuries and the assailants besides robbed him of the currency helium was carrying.Jahan further said that earlier his death, Das had mentioned the names of the accused.
Later, aft realising that helium had recognised immoderate of them, the attackers poured petrol connected his assemblage and look and acceptable him connected occurrence successful an effort to termination him.Hearing his screams, section residents rushed to the spot, forcing the attackers to flee. Das was rescued successful a captious information and taken to Shariatpur Sadar Hospital. As his information worsened, helium was referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and aboriginal to the National Burn Institute, wherever helium died during treatment.Police said the arrested men are known successful the country for transgression activities and alleged cause abuse. Further probe is nether way.Khokon Das’s nephew-in-law, Pranto Das, said the household is seeking a thorough probe and justice. He further stressed that nary 1 progressive successful the sidesplitting should beryllium spared and that each those liable indispensable beryllium held accountable.The sidesplitting has sparked interest amid reports of caller convulsive incidents involving members of the Hindu assemblage successful Bangladesh. Rights groups and assemblage leaders person called for strict enactment against perpetrators and stronger measures to guarantee the information of minorities.Last month, Dipu Chandra Das, a section garment mill idiosyncratic was beaten to decease by a mob and his assemblage was acceptable connected occurrence successful Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district.
