None but muggers kill dentist Bulbul, claims DB
The arrested four persons are the professional muggers, said the DB of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
Detective have claimed that the muggers were snatching the cash and valuables from passengers stopping rickshaws between Ananda Bazar area at West Shewrapara and Kazipara Bus Stand. When Dr Bulbul came out on road at about 5:30am on March 27, the muggers waylaid his rickshaw and tried to snatch his Samsung mobile phone and cash from him.
“As the slain dentist tried to resist the muggers, they brutally stabbed him right on the road mercilessly. When the muggers saw that their victim was bleeding profusely, they fled with his mobile phone only,” said AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of the DB, while addressing a press conference at the DMP Media and Public Relation Department at about 3:30pm on Wednesday (March 30).
The arrested were gang leader Raihan alias Sohel Apon, 27, Rasel Hossain Howlader, 25, Arian Khan Ridoy, 23, and Solaiman, 23. During the arrests, the detectives recovered the slain dentist’s cellphone and a knife used for his murder.
AKM Hafiz Akhter said slain Bulbul Ahmed is a dentist by profession and a Class 1 category contractor. He was awarded a work at a government office in Noakhali 15 to 20 days ago. He left his residence at about 5:15am on March 27 last to go to Noakhali. Coming out of the residence, Bulbul got on a rickshaw at Ananda Bazar area in West Shewrapara to go to Kazipara Bus Stand. When his rickshaw reached at the premises of Navana Furniture and Amsico Furniture showrooms on Begum Rokeya Sarani at about 5:30am, the four muggers waylaid him and tried to snatch mobile phone and cash from him. As the dentist resisted them, the one of the muggers injured him critically hitting above his right knee with a knife. But, the muggers fled with his mobile phone only because of his profuse bleeding and shouting.
