Chhatra Dal Leader Among Two Arrested Over Shooting at BNP Leader’s Home in Demra

Police have arrested the leader of a local Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal unit and another man in connection with a shooting at the home of an opposition BNP leader in Dhaka’s Demra. Officers also recovered three firearms, two magazines and 13 rounds of ammunition during separate raids.

The suspects were identified as Masud Rana, 35, convenor of the JCD’s Demra thana unit, and Taposh, 38. Mallik Ahasan Uddin Sami, deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Wari division, confirmed the arrests and said a case had been filed over the shooting at the residence of SM Reza Chowdhury Selim, convenor of the Demra thana BNP unit.

According to the deputy commissioner, police used technology to trace Taposh’s alleged involvement and arrested him near Sultana Kamal Bridge in Demra early in the morning. Information obtained during his interrogation led officers to a house in the Barabo area of Rupganj, where they arrested Masud.

Police said they found an old single-barrel shotgun and eight cartridges in an abandoned room at the house. A later search of Taposh’s rented home recovered two pistols, two magazines and five rounds of ammunition from a room’s sunshade. The deputy commissioner said investigators confirmed that the recovered firearms had been used in the attack.

The shooting took place at dawn on Friday, when eight or nine helmet-wearing people arrived at Selim’s residence and opened fire. Selim filed a case against eight unnamed people. Police said the latest arrests bring the number detained over the shooting to three, while a separate Arms Act case is being prepared over the weapons and ammunition.

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The recovered firearms had been used in the shooting at Selim’s residence.