DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police held Joni, friend of Oishee Rahman, for his alleged involvement in killing Special Branch inspector and his wife, from city’s Badda area early Thursday.

Sources said Joni was absconding after the murder incident. He is now being interrogated at DB headquarters in city’s Mintoo Road area.

DMP’s Media and Public Relation’s Department Deputy Commissioner of police Masudur Rahman confirmed the matters to banglanews.

The details will be disclosed at around 11:00 am through a press conference, he added.

Earlier on August 16, police recovered the decomposed bodies of the couple around 4:00pm breaking into the flat on the fifth floor of the building.

The bodies were found in Oishee’s bathroom and they bore several stab wounds, police said earlier.

Oishee left their house with her seven-year-old brother Ohidur Rahman and domestic help Sumi, 10, and left the house boarding on a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.

Later on august 17, Oishee along with their housemaid Sumi surrendered to Paltan Thana and DB police held five other persons in this regard.

BDST: 0946 HRS, SEP 19, 2013
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