Masud's arrest to solve Rita murder mystery, police hopes

Masud was a regular visitor to Rita's house and called her 'Rita Apa', police said. He could help find out the killer, police hoped.

He along with an unidentified young man and two young women took the victim's body to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) soon after the killing on Saturday. Keeping the body at the DMCH, all of them went into hiding.

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Raiding different parts of the city yesterday, police failed to arrest Masud or the six women whose photographs were seized from Rita's residence.

Dr Kamrunnahar, the owner of Rita's rented flat and wife of director general of Press Institute of Bangladesh Rezawan Hossain Siddique, filed a case with Dhanmondi Police Station yesterday.

In the first information report (FIR), Kamrunnahar said people told her that Rita was shot dead and two young men and two women took away the body.

Meanwhile, Rita's brother Ujjal Kumar Chakraborty received the body from the DMCH morgue yesterday. She was buried at Azimpur graveyard.

Rita married a Muslim few years back and converted to Islam, police said.