Dhaka, Nov. 16 -- Police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested two suspects in the gruesome murder of raw-material trader Ashraful Haque, 42, whose body - cut into 26 pieces - was recovered from the High Court intersection area in Dhaka earlier this week.
The agencies, however, presented sharply different accounts of the motive behind the killing during separate press briefings on Saturday.
RAB-3 commanding officer Lt Col Fayezul Arefin briefed the media at 10:00am at the force's Karwan Bazar media centre, presenting details based on the confessional statement of accused Shamima Akhter, 33. Two hours later, at the DMP Media Centre on Minto Road, Additional Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam of the Detective Branch (DB) outlined a...