One Month of Sinha Killing Motive yet to be identified

Two investigations have yet to determine the reason behind the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in police firing while he was returning to a Ramu resort from Teknaf on July 31 after hours-long filming for travel documentary.

Neither the home ministry-formed four-member inquiry committee led by additional divisional commissioner Mohammad Mizanur Rahman nor the Rapid Action Battalion investigators are conclusive over the motive of the killing.

Sinha’s family, however, said they were happy with the investigation process and wanted get early justice.

On Monday, Sinha’s mother Nasima Akhter at a special prayer session at Retired Armed Forces Officers Welfare Association Club in Dhaka marking a month of the killing said that as long as the prime minister Sheikh Hasina was monitoring the process of the investigation, they believed justice would be done.

Sinha’s sister Sharmen Shahria Ferdaus also said that they were waiting to see the inquiry report of the government-formed committee.

The battalion has so far arrested 13 suspects, including the then Teknaf police station officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das, Baharchhara investigation centre inspector Liyakat Ali, who shot Sinha, the centre’s subinspector Nanda Dulal Rakshit, assistant sub-inspector Liton Mia and constables Safanur Karim, Kamal Hossain and Abdullah Al Mamun, Armed Police Battalion members sub-inspector Md Shahjahan and constables Rajib and Abdullah and three villagers, who were named as witnesses in the case Nanda filed over the incident. Five of the 13 suspects have so far made confessions in the case.

RAB-15 senior assistant police superintendent Khairul Islam, also the inevstiagtion officer of the case, said that they had made significant progress in the case. He said four others, including Pradeep, were no in their custody for interrogation.

Mohmmad Mizanur Rahman, who was heading the government inquiry committee, said they got further extension into the inquiry until September 7 and was trying to submit their report on September 3 subject to interviewing Pradeep, who, the committee considered a ‘pivotal character’.

The recorded the statement of 67 of the 68 people listed prior to their inquiry.

The home ministry’s Public Security Division had formed the committee on August 2. Following the death, seven complaints have been lodged with Cox’s Bazar courts against Pradeep and others for killing people in reported incidents of crossfire. One of the complaints has been filed as a first information report with the Teknaf police station against Pradeep and Liyakat Ali.

Another inquiry has also been initiated against Liyakat in Chattogram.

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