Overview
- Rapid Action Battalion teams detained Sohag Khan, Rabbi Molla and Palash Sardar in Kishoreganj after Khokon Chandra Das named two of them before he died, police said.
- Das, a 50-year-old pharmacy owner and mobile banking agent, was stabbed, robbed and set on fire on December 31 near Keurbhanga Bazar and later died during treatment in Dhaka.
- Doctors reported multiple stab wounds and significant burns, and investigators described the suspects as locally known offenders linked to drug abuse.
- In a separate case in Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj, a 40-year-old Hindu widow reported being gang-raped, tied to a tree and humiliated on video; police recorded her complaint and two suspects were arrested.
- Hours later in Jessore’s Monirampur, journalist and businessman Rana Pratap Bairagi was fatally shot by unidentified assailants, with police probing the killing and no motive announced.