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[2] Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), also investigation authority of the custodial death case has seized the mobile and SIM card of the arrested Sub Inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan, reports Samakal.
The PBI received two mobile sets and four SIM cards on Thursday. [3] Earlier, Kanaighat police station recovered the mobile sets and the SIM cards from the border area. [4] Sub-Inspector (SI) Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan was apprehended at the Dona border in the northeastern district’s Kanaighat upazila, say police.
[5] Thirty-four-year-old Rayhan, who lived in the city’s Akharia neighbourhood, was beaten to death on October 11 at the Bandar Bazar police outpost, according to a case filed by the family. SI Akbar was in charge of the outpost at the time.
“He was arrested at around 9am by a police team in plainclothes,” Sylhet’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Fariduudin told the media at his office later in the day.
[6] Later in the day at around 7:30pm, Sylhet Range Police handed over Akbar to the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), who are now investigating the case. He was then taken to PBI’s office in a van.