The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is working to arrest the killers of Jamalpur journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim.
“It is extremely tragic when journalists are killed. RAB is conducting a covert investigation into the murder,” Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director (legal and media) of the RAB, said while speaking at a press conference at the force Kawran Bazar media center in the capital on Friday.
“The intelligence wing of RAB headquarters and RAB-14 have started working to arrest those who were involved in the murder. All involved will be arrested no matter their identity,” he added.
Golam Rabbani Nadim, 42, district correspondent of Bangla-news24.com and Bakshiganj upazila correspondent of Ekattor TV, was killed in an attack allegedly by the associates of a Union Parishad (UP) chairman in Bakshiganj upazila of Jamalpur district.
Locals said Nadim was attacked by some miscreants while he was returning home from Bakshiganj upazila after performing his professional duties around 10pm on Wednesday.
Later, locals rescued him and took him to Bakshiganj Upazila Health Complex from where he was taken to Jamalpur General Hospital for better treatment at 12am.
As his condition deteriorated Thursday morning, Jamalpur General Hospital duty doctor SM Shahidur Rahman referred him to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
He died at around 3:45pm on Thursday while undergoing treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Nadim's wife Monira Begum alleged that some supporters of Sadhurpara Union Parishad chairman Mahmudul Alam Babu attacked Nadim and killed him.
She demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in the incident.
