Businessman Murder

Kajal's accomplice held trying to flee country

Staff Correspondent
Immigration officials of Benapole land port in Jessore yesterday arrested an accomplice of Jubo Dal leader Rafiqul Islam Kajal, the prime suspect for the gruesome killings of an old Dhaka businessman and his son, when he was fleeing the country.

The officials caught Abdur Rahim, one of Kajal's eight accomplices, after they identified him from a photograph police earlier supplied to the immigration.

A police team from Dhaka went to Jessore to bring him back to Dhaka for grilling. Rahim is a resident of Madan Pal Lane in old Dhaka.

Police said the team was due to be back in Dhaka by midnight last night and the police would start quizzing him from morning.

Police, however, could not arrest Kajal even 12 days after the grisly murders that sent a shock wave among the businesspeople.

Kajal went into hiding after remains of Shamsul Haq and his son Russell Sheikh were found in 200 pieces two days after their disappearance on March 26.

Earlier, the body of Haq's driver Moazzem was found at Dhamrai.