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The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five individuals for their alleged involvement in the killing of customs official Bullet Bairagi (35).
The crime busting elite force said that the victim was murdered by a gang or robbers.
The arrested are: Imran Hossain Hridoy (37), Mohammad Sohag (30), Ismail Hossain Jony (25), Mohammad Sujon (32) and Rahatul Rahman Juel (27)
An auto-rickshaw, a machete and a switchblade-type knife were also recovered by RAB from their possession.
RAB's Law and Media Wing Director MZM Ehtesham Chowdhury disclosed the information to the journalists at its media centre in the capital's Karwan Bazar on Monday.
He said that the arrested individuals are active members of an organised criminal gang.
Members of the gang continued their criminal activities in the guise of drivers and passengers in different areas of Cumilla.
They targeted inter-district travelers and picked them up in CNG-run auto-rickshaws before attacking them with sharp weapons and robbing them.
The RAB official said that the group had been waiting at Jagurjuli Bishwa Road in Cumilla on the night of the incident.
Bullet Bairagi, who was returning home in Cumilla after training in Chattogram, arrived there around 3am on Friday night.
He was picked up in an auto-rickshaw and later attacked inside the vehicle.
The assailants robbed his phone, cash and bag, and during a struggle, pushed him off the moving vehicle, leaving him severely injured.
His body was later found on Saturday morning beside a hotel in the Kotbari area on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla.
A murder case was filed that night at Cumilla Sadar South Model Police Station by his mother Nilima Bairagi naming unidentified persons as accused.
Bullet Bairagi was the son of Susheel Bairagi of the Babupara area in Dumuria village under Tungipara upazila of Gopalganj.
He worked as an assistant revenue officer at Bibir Bazar land port in Cumilla.
From there, he went to Chattogram on 1 April for 44th foundational training.
For work, he lived in a rented house in the Rajganj Panpatty area of Cumilla city.
He was the only child of his parents and is survived by his wife and a child.
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