Tipu, Prity murders: Key suspect Musa placed on remand again

A Dhaka court has placed Sumon Shikder alias Musa on a three-day fresh remand in a case filed over Dhaka Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu, and college student Samia Afran Jamal Prity's murders in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur on March 24.

Metropolitan Magistrate Ashek Imam passed the order after Mohammad Yasin Sikder, an inspector of Detective Branch of Police and also investigation officer of the case, produced Musa, a key suspect in the case, with a seven-day remand prayer for further interrogation.

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Musa was produced before the court today (June 22, 2022) on completion of his four-day remand in the second phase. Earlier, he was placed on a six-day remand in the first phase.

In the remand prayer today, the IO said Musa coordinated the killings and supplied the firearm which was used to kill Tipu. Moreover, two other arrestees Masum Mohammad alias Akash and Md Nasiruddin Manik gave confessional statements where they involved Musa with the killing.

As such, he needs to be remanded to recover the arms which was used in the killings, the IO added.

On June 9, Musa was brought home from Oman by police. Oman police arrested Musa on May 12 when he was returning to Dubai after offering prayers at a shrine in Salalah city, DB sources said.

With Musa, detectives have arrested 16 accused with the killings.

On March 24, Tipu, 55, former general secretary of Motijheel AL, was returning home in his microbus from his restaurant in Motijheel AGB Colony area. The vehicle was at a traffic light in Shahjahanpur when attackers arrived at the scene on a motorcycle and opened fire.

College student Prity, 22, who happened to be on a rickshaw next to the vehicle, also got shot. The two were declared dead after being taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.