Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday claimed that they were making progress in the investigation into the murder case of Tanwir Muhammad Taqi, who was found dead two days after his abduction in 2013.
RAB-11 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Tanvir Mahmud Pasha made the claim after a RAB team had on the day visited prime accused Ajmeri Osman鈥檚 alleged torture cell, where Taqi was reportedly tortured to death, at College Road in Narayanganj city.
Md Shafayet Hossain Shipon, an accused arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder, was present when RAB also visited the Kumudini branch canal of the Shitalakshya River, where Taqi鈥檚 body was found.
Lieutenant Colonel Tanvir said that one of the five people arrested recently gave a confessional statement in the court.
He claimed that they could extract important interrogation by interrogating others.
鈥榃e hope that we will be able to submit a fair report to the court very soon,鈥� he added.
Earlier, RAB-11 arrested five suspects including the driver of Ajmeri Osman, a son of the late Jatiya Party lawmaker Nasim Osman and nephew of former Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman.
RAB said that the five arrested suspects were close associates of Ajmeri Osman.
Almost a year after Taqi鈥檚 murder, the draft of a Rapid Action Battalion investigation report got leaked in the media.
The leaked report revealed the involvement of 11 people, including Ajmeri Osman, in the killing.
According to the findings of that report, Ajmeri not only masterminded the murder of the bright teenage boy in Narayanganj but also directly took part in it.
Directed by him, his accomplices followed Taqi and forcefully took him to his 鈥榯orture centre鈥� at the Winner Fashion on Allama Iqbal Road on March 6, 2013.
Later that night, Ajmeri and his cohorts beat and strangled the 17-year-old boy to death. His body was then put into a sack and taken to Charargop area in Ajmeri鈥檚 car.
On March 7, the killers took the body to Kumudini Jora Khal in a boat and dumped it in the Sitalakhya River between 1:00am and 1:30am.
Taqi鈥檚 body was recovered from the river the next day, according to the findings, reported by various media outlets.