DHAKA, Nov 12, 2024 (BSS) - A close aide of former lawmaker from Dhaka-16 constituency Elias Molla was arrested from the capital’s  Pallabi area on Monday night on charges of killing Sakib Raihan after opening indiscriminate firings at the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
 
Pallabi Thana police arrested Mosharraf Hasan Benu, 52, right hand of Elias Molla from Block-E, Section-12 of Pallabi around 9:30pm on Monday, a police press release said today. 

Benu was arrested in connection with a case filed with Pallabi Police Station for killing Sakib Raihan on October 3 last as his involvement was allegedly found through scrutiny of the video footages of the incident.

According to the case details, a group of leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliated bodies attacked the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement with firearms and crude bombs in front of Popular Diagnostic Centre at Pallabi on July 19 last.   

 Sakib, who took part in the demonstration, suffered critical bullet wounds and was rushed to the Suhrawardi Medical College Hospital where attending physicians declared him dead.