MP’s son Rony, in fresh remand

A Dhaka on Tuesday again placed Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony on a two-day fresh remand in the case filed in connection with the killing two people in the city.
Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Aminul Hoque passed the order yesterday rejecting the bail plea of Rony.Detective Branch (DB) Sub-Inspector Dipak Kumar Das, also investigation officer of the case, filed a seven-day remand petition with the CMM court on Sunday. Later, the court fixed Tuesday for the remand hearing.
On April 13, Rony, who was in a drunken stupor, opened fire indiscriminately from his pistol near Dilu Road leaving two people: rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim and the Janakantha auto-rickshaw driver Yakub injured. Hakim succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 15 while Yakub died on April 23.
Hakim’s mother Monowara Begum filed the murder case with Ramna Police Station on April 15. Rony’s friends Kamal Mahmud, Tiger Kamal and Md Jahangir Hossain who were with Rony on the car during the incident testified to a court on June 17 and 18 in the case.
Besides, Driver of the Prado jeep Imran Fakir made confessional statement to a court on June 1and Rony was arrested on his information.
According to the judicial statements, Rony had fired four to five shots at people when his vehicle got stuck in a tailback at New Eskaton around 1.45 am, on the eve of Pohela Boishakh. – Special Representative