4 held over police constable murder in city

Staff Reporter  :
Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in stabbing police constable Moniruzzaman Talukdar to death in the city’s Farmgate area on Saturday.

Tejgaon division DB members nabbed them after conducting raids in the capital at different times on Saturday night.
Deputy police commissioner Md Golam Sabur confirmed the matter to the media on Sunday and said that one of them confessed to his involvement in the incident.
Police have been working to arrest the other members of the gang. Details regarding the matter will be briefed later, he added.
Earlier, police constable Md Moniruzzaman Talukdar, 45, got down from a train at Tejgaon Rail Station at around 3:30am on Saturday and was returning his workplace on foot. When he arrived at Sejan Point on Indira Road, a group of muggers waylaid him. At one stage of altercation, they stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him critically injured.

Moniruzzaman was taken to Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where an on-duty doctor declared him dead. The body was sent to the hospital’s morgue.
Victim was working as a constable at Tejgaon Traffic Division. He hailed from Sherpur district.