Rangpur child murder suspect held in Dhaka

File photo of Rawnak.

Police have arrested a suspect over the murder of a four-year-old boy Rawnak in Rangpur four days ago.

Mobasser Alam, 40, an uncle of the boy, was arrested from Dhaka's Mohammadpur, Abdul Quader Zilani, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Kotwali Police Station, told The Daily Star. He was taken to Rangpur this morning.

Rawnak's body was recovered from a paddy field at Tekanipara village in Mithapukur upazila on January 29, around two months after he was allegedly kidnapped from in front of his house.

Family claimed that Mobasser kidnapped the boy from in front of his house on December 1 last year. Mobasser had a financial dispute with Rawnak's father Mosaddek Hossain Ranga.