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Youth held over Dhaka hotel manager murder

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Sun Sep 17, 2017 04:58 PM Last update on: Sun Sep 17, 2017 05:09 PM

Detectives claim to have arrested an accused in a case filed over the murder of a hotel manager in Dhaka.

Detectives arrest Md Mosharraf Hossain alias Mosharraf Karim, 18, from Bhola in the early hours on September 17, 2017, in a murder case filed against him. Photo: Jamil Khan/ STAR

Detectives today claimed to have arrested an accused in a case filed over the murder of a hotel manager in Dhaka.

The arrestee, Md Mosharraf Hossain alias Mosharraf Karim, 18, who hailed from Lalmohan upazila of Bhola, allegedly killed the manager of Hotel Arafat & Restaurant in the capital on August 25 following a dispute over salary payment and went into hiding, said Abdul Baten, joint commissioner of detective branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

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A case was filed with Bangshal Police Station in this connection a day after the killing, the DB official said while briefing reporters at DMP Media Centre in Dhaka today.

On information, detectives conducted a drive in Bhola last night and detained Mosharraf early today, he further said, also claiming that in primary interrogation the accused has confessed his crime.