Police still scribble in dark for motive

 Liton, even after a week.
Though the family alleged link of Jamaat in the killing, police are also investigating if his rivals were involved in committing the crime, investigators said.
The issue of suspicion of AL’s factional feud surfaced as police on early Sunday arrested a former vice-chairman of Sundarganj upazila parishad, Ahsan Habib Masud, who is a local leader of AL’s front organisation, Swechchhasebok League.
Following the December 31 killing of Liton, police had arrested 40 people, almost all involved in Jamaat politics. Of them, a total of seven, including six Jamaat men and Ahsan Habib, were shown arrested in the murder case. 
‘We have been working with every possibilities keeping in mind. We hope that we will be able to unearth the motive soon,’ said Atiar Rahman, the Sundarganj police station officer-in-charge. 
He said police produced Ahsan Habib to court, seeking a seven-day remand in police custody. The court approved it.
The OC said the former upazila chairman is an accused in a case lodged in 2010 by the slain lawmaker for allegedly attacking him during a political programme. 
Liton’ close political associates said Ahsan Habib was a local leader of Hasanul Huq Inu-led Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and joined Sundarganj thana unit of Swechchhasebok League in late 2010, months after the lawmaker was allegedly attacked. 
Ahsan Habib performed as a leader of the thana Swechchhasebok League but was yet to secure any post of the organisation officially, they said.
They said the former upazila vice-chairman is known as one of the members of the MP’s rival group at Sunderganj Awami League.
The aides said Ahsan Habib attacked Liton in an extension meeting of Sundarganj upazila AL in 2010 when the lawmaker opposed Ahsan Habib’s inclusion to the party.
‘We want to see that the law enforcers unearthed the mystery in the killing….We are not ruling out any possibility,’ Sundarganj upazila Juba League general secretary, Md Rezaul Alam Reza, known as one of close political associates of Liton, told New Age. 
‘We cannot say for sure that there was no factional feud in Sundarganj AL,’ he said.
The Sundarganj OC Atiar said that the court of Gaibandha additional chief judicial magistrate, Moinul Hasan Yusuf, on Sunday approved a police prayer to take the arrested six suspects under a seven-day remand each for interrogation. 
‘We already got them in our custody for interrogation,’ he said.
They are Farid Mia, 70, of Rambhadra Kadamtala, Hazarat Ali, 44, of Rambhadra Khanabari, Nabinur Khandakar of Purba Shibram, Shamiul Islam, 32, of Nichpara, Hadisur Rahman, 30, of Khamar Panchgachhi and Ziaur Rahman, 32, of Uttar Hatibandha under Suandarganj upazila. They all belong to Jamaat-e- Islam, Bangladesh, police said. 
A source in Sundarganj police said they arrested Sundarganj purba thana amir of Jamaat, Saiful Islam Mandal, in connection with the killing on Sunday afternoon. 
The OC, however, said that ‘a team of Sundarganj police were out to nab him. I am yet to get the details.’ 
Manzurul was shot inside his house at Shahabaj village of Sundarganj on December 31, 2016, and was declared dead after about two hours at Rangpur Medical College Hospital.
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