Ranju Miah, 25, a shopkeeper at Konabari Raw Bazaar in Gazipur, was killed for not paying money for drugs. The killer Faisal (25) said this in his confessional statement when he was sent to the court on Thursday.
Gazipur Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested him on Wednesday night from the Demra Police Station's Staff Quarters area in Dhaka.
PBI's Gazipur Superintendent of Police Mohammad Makshuder Rahman said Ranju Mia's body was recovered from a building under construction near the Konabari raw market fish market around 10am on July 18.
The next day, the victim's brother Shamim Hossain filed a case against the unidentified accused at the Konabari police station. The case was being investigated by the PBI.
The murder mystery was revealed after Faisal's arrest around 8:30 pm on Wednesday.
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