The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested five of us over the killing of Deepto TV staffer Tanjil Jahan Islam aka Tamim over a flat handover-linked dispute within the capital’s Hatirjheel situation the outdated day (10 October).
The arrestees – Md Abdul Latif, Md Kurban Ali, Mahin, Mozammel Haque Kabir and Badhan – appreciate been apprehended from the Malibagh and Rampura areas right via raids performed the outdated day and this day (11 October), DMP’s Tejgaon Zone Deputy Commissioner Md Ruhul Kabir Khan mentioned at a press briefing this morning.
A case has been filed on the Hatirjheel Police Dwelling over the killing of Tanjil accusing 16 other folks, he mentioned.
Tanjil, who was once a broadcast officer at Deepto TV, succumbed to accidents sustained in a violent altercation at an under-construction constructing at Mohanagar Venture’s D-Block with workers of right property developer Stress-free Properties and owners of different residences of the constructing the outdated day.
At the press briefing, Ruhul Kabir mentioned Tanjil’s father Sultan Mahmud, who owns part of the land the set aside the constructing is being constructed, entered an agreement with right property developer firm Stress-free Properties (Pvt) Ltd a while aid.
There was once a prolonged-standing dispute between the landowners and the firm in terms of the part of residences to the owners as per the agreement.
Allegations and counter allegations
The nine-storey constructing, comprising 27 residences, has been constructed on a little bit of land owned by three of us, including Sultan, per police officers and native sources.
Talking to the media the outdated day, Sultan mentioned as per the contract, each landowner was once entitled to four and a half residences, nonetheless Stress-free Properties had been delaying the transfer of his fragment despite handing over the residences of the two other owners.
The command escalated when Stress-free Properties’ workers began construction work on a flat occupied by the developer firm. Sultan and Tamim intervened to terminate the work, resulting in a violent confrontation, the relatives mentioned.
Tamim was once severely injured within the assault and therefore succumbed to his accidents.
“Division of Narcotics Abet watch over Deputy Director Mohammad Mamun is moreover alive to in occupying the flat. They forcefully occupied the residences by conserving the residences and landowners hostage with the hooligans,” alleged Sultan.
Besides, frail chief of DMP’s Detective Branch additional commissioner Harun-Or-Rashid’s father-in-legislation Solaiman Mia, who moreover worked on the narcotics control department, helped Mamun in grabbing the residences, Sultan moreover alleged.
“Nevertheless the builders had already handed over the residences of the opposite two landowners in June 2022.”
Sultan moreover claimed that the police did no longer serve them when they went to file a Total Diary over the problem. Nonetheless, Hatirjheel Police Dwelling Officer-in-Charge Saiful Islam denied the allegations.
When asked in regards to the allegation of launching the assault by sending his men, Sheikh Rabiul Alam Robi, managing director of Stress-free Properties, mentioned, “I did no longer ship anyone there. I had sent an engineer to divulge them to terminate the work. There was once no assault on the positioning.”
Mamun moreover denied the allegations brought in opposition to him.
“I’m being compelled on cause. I’m no longer linked with the proprietor or developer firm of this constructing. My father-in-legislation bought a flat within the constructing. I reside in my father-in-legislation’s dwelling. I used to be once no longer at dwelling on the time of the incident. I manufacture no longer know what occurred. That you simply might compare this by gazing the CCTV photos of the incident,” he mentioned.
Mamun, nonetheless, alleged that Tamim’s father Sultan vandalised his dwelling with a neighborhood of men. “They entered my dwelling after breaking down the door. They moreover broke the furniture of the dwelling. They even broke the CCTV camera.”
