Assault on Navy officer: Irfan Salim’s another associate held in

Detectives claimed to have arrested another associate of Irfan Salim from Tangail district early Tuesday in a case filed over assaulting an official of Bangladesh Navy in the capital on Sunday night.

A team of Detective Branch of Police arrested Irfan’s associate AB Siddique, 45, from Tangail around 3:30am, said Walid Hossain, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

With his arrest, all the named accused in the case, including Irfan, are now behind bars. The other arrestees are Md Zahid and driver Mizanur Rahman.

Lieutenant Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy filed the case with Dhanmondi Police Station naming four and several unnamed persons.

According to the case statement, a private car hit Lt Wasif’s bike near Labaid Hospital in Dhanmondi area around 7:45pm when he and his wife were returning to their Mohammadpur residence from Nilkhet.

Later, some people came out of the car and physically assaulted the navy officer and verbally abused his wife.

Rab detained Irfan from his father’s residence at Devdas Lane of Swarighat in old part of Dhaka on Monday afternoon.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday sentenced Irfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 MP Haji Salim, and his bodyguard, Zahid, to one-year in jail for possessing illegal walkie-talkies and liquor.