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by the Rapid Action Battalion
grabbed credit for the murder before the media yesterday.Earlier, four men nabbed
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by the Detective Branch of police on August 25 and another on Saturday admitted to being involved in the murder of Nitai, assistant professor of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), at his Mohakhali residence in the capital.
Both the groups, however, named one person, Masum Mintu, 24, placed in durance vile
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on Saturday by DB, as the one who had stabbed the physician, who also owned a private clinic named Reliance Medical and Services in Dhaka.
A few Rab sources, meanwhile, said two doctors of the NIDCH had links with the killing as prior to the incident they had communicated several times with the manager of Nitai's clinic, his driver and assistant.
One of the two doctors had already been placed in durance vile
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by Rab, a Rab source said, wishing anonymity. But the Rab authorities denied it.
The arrestees in Rab custody are Nitai's manager Saifur Rahman, 36, driver Kamrul Hasan Arun, 27, assistant Tariqul Islam, 24, and three others -- Bakul Miah, 26, Rafiqul Islam, 24, and Sayeed, 25.
At a press briefing yesterday at the Rab headquarters in Dhaka, Arun said he had hired Bakul, Rafiqul, Sayeed, Hossain and Mintu on the instructions of manager Saifur and medical assistant Tariqul to loot Tk 20 lakh in cash and 108 tolas of gold from the doctor's house.
"We were five in the gang. Bakul, Sayeed, Hossain, Mintu and I entered the house. Mintu stabbed the doctor to death," Rafiqul said.
Saifur, however, claimed that he had not been involved.
Another four arrestees -- Peda Mashud, 25, Saidul, 37, Pichhi Kalam, 26, and Faisal, 30 -- at the briefing arranged by DB on August 25 said they had been seven in a group. Four of them had entered the house while the other three had remained outside.
Mintu was the one who had stabbed the doctor, resulting in his death, they said.
Mintu after his arrest on Saturday said his associates Sayeed and Bakul had taken him to rob, with them, Nitai's house at NIDCH compound at dead of night.
He also said Nitai's driver had informed them of the cash from the sale of a piece of land and gold and that a group of seven had attempted the robbery.
Both Rab and DB have been claiming that they have placed in durance vile
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the real killers.