BOGURA, Dec 29, 2025 (BSS) - Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested the key accused in the murder of Lotto showroom manager Pintu Akand (38) in Dupchanchia, Bogra. 

He was arrested from the station road area of ??Tongi East Police Station in Gazipur in a joint operation by RAB-12 and RAB-1 last night.

The arrested accused was Moktar Hossain (35), son of Ahad Ali of Kankai village in Dupchanchia upazila of Bogra. 

Lt. BN Wahiduzzaman, company commander of RAB-12 Bogura, confirmed this information at a press conference this afternoon.

According to the complaint, the deceased Pintu Akand had been working as the manager of Toufiq Elahi Sujan's Lotto showroom in Khandaker Market, adjacent to the CO Office intersection under Dupchanchia police station in Bogura district, for about three years. 

On the night of December 22, when the shop was closed, 6 to 7 unidentified miscreants entered the showroom, forcibly dragged him and abducted him in a white microbus. 

Later, his body was recovered in the Komarbhog area of ??Chhatiangram union in Adamdighi upazila. 

After the incident, the victim's wife filed a kidnapping and murder case with Dupchanchia Police Station.