The arrested suspects have claimed during initial interrogation that they broke into the home of Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam Hussain with the ‘intent to steal valuables’.
RAB-13 Commander Reza Ahmed Ferdaus gave the information while briefing the media about the investigation over the incident at a press conference in Rangpur on Friday evening, reports bdnews24.com.
The elite force arrested three suspects in connection with the attack.
The arrested suspects are Asadul Haque, 35, Md Nabirul Islam, 35, and Santu Kumar Biswas, 28.
According to Asadul, it was an attempted heist, the RAB official said.
He, however, added that more investigation needed to confirm the claim.
The RAB has also released Jahangir Hossain, the convenor of the Ghoraghat Upazila unit of Jubo League who was detained for his suspected involvement in the attack.
Now the RAB says the investigators could not find his involvement in the attack.
Wahida Khanam was seriously injured in an attack by miscreants at her home at the Upazila Parishad complex early Thursday.
Her father Omar Ali was also injured in the attack. He told police that someone broke in through the ventilator shaft of the bathroom at night.
When Wahida noticed it, the assailant struck her in the head with a hammer. He suffered the same fate when he rushed to her aid. Then they were taken to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital.
Later, the UNO was airlifted from Rangpur to Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force MI-171SH helicopter.
She was admitted to the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital in Dhaka.
Wahida’s brother Sheikh Farid has started a case against unnamed assailants at Ghoraghat Police Station over the incident, accusing them of attempted murder.
The RAB arrested key suspect Asadul at Bangla Hili in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur during a shadow investigation into the case on Thursday, Ferdaus said.
The law enforcers arrested Nabirul and Santu on Friday following Asadul’s statement.
The RAB recovered a red T-shirt following Asadul’s statement. Security camera footage showed one of the attackers wore a red T-shirt. Asadul reportedly admitted it was his.
Asadul and Nabirul have a number of cases against them. Nabirul is accused of theft in one of the cases.