Cops may seek cancellation of Rony’s arms license

File photo of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of a ruling party lawmaker

Police will appeal to relevant authorities to revoke gun license of Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony if ballistic reports find evidence that bullets from his firearms killed two people on April 14.

The ballistic report will confirm whether bullets found in the victims’ bodies are of Rony’s firearm, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told reporters at the Media Wing of DMP this afternoon.

Police will appeal to relevant authorities to revoke gun license of Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony if ballistic reports find evidence that bullets from his firearms killed two people on April 14.

The ballistic report will confirm whether bullets found in the victims’ bodies are of Rony’s firearm, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told reporters at the Media Wing of DMP this afternoon.

On Sunday, detectives seized the black Prado car, believed to be owned by Pinu, also general secretary of Mahila Awami League, from the flat allocated to her as an MP.

Bakhtiar, who was arrested on May 31, told investigators that he had gone to a local bar in the evening of April 13 and a party at Sonargaon Hotel later that night.

Returning drunk from Sonargaon around 1:30am, he was “feeling suffocated inside his car” stuck in a traffic jam near Dilu Road, investigators quoted him as saying. Lowering the glass of his car window, he fired four to five times, Bakhtiar told DB officials.

One of the victims, rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim, was hit by bullet in the abdomen. The bullet was removed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, according to family and hospital sources. Hakim died 16 hours after the shooting.

Auto-rickshaw driver Yakub Ali too was hit once, in the right part of his chest. The bullet was pulled out from the body during autopsy at Dhaka Medical College morgue. Yakub died on April 23.

Bakhtiar was denied bail by a Dhaka court yesterday.