Three members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) were taken into Rab custody from jail today for interrogation, in a case filed in connection with the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

The trio are Assistant Sub-inspector Md Shahjahan and constables Razib and Md Abdullah. They were on duty at the Shamlapur checkpoint at 9:30pm on July 31, yards away from the spot where Maj (retd) Sinha was killed.

A Rab team, led by Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Khairul Islam of Rab, also the investigation officer (IO) of the murder case, took the trio from Cox's Bazar prison around 12:00pm today, said Md Mokammel Hossain, superintendent of the district jail.

The three policemen were first taken to Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital for medical check-up and later taken to the Rab-15 office for interrogation, our district correspondent reports quoting Rab officials.

On August 18, the three APBn members were arrested and placed on a seven-day remand in the murder case.