The police on Saturday recovered a partial skeleton suspected to be of the former Sylhet district lawyers' association president Shamsul Islam Chowdhury, who went missing on July 17.
A police team, led by SMP deputy commissioner Ezaz Ahmad, launched a drive on Saturday and recovered the partial skeleton on the bank of the River Surma River near Brahmangaon in the Sunam-ganj district headquarters.
The drive was conducted based on the statement of the accused Ansar Ali, Ismail Hosen and Borhan in a case after their arrest on August 18. The arrested are now remanded in policy custody for five days, the police said.
The Sylhet Kotwali police officer-in-charge, Khandaker Nawroz Ahmed, said that a DNA test would be conducted on the skeleton to establish whether it was of Shamsul Islam.
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Ansar, Ismail and Borhan on August 19 in connection with the case.
The battalion, quoting the arrested, said that Shamsul had been killed by his younger son Munna as Shamsul had refused to put the family's wealth in Munna's name.
Senior lawyer Shamsul went from his house at Mirbuxtula in Sylhet on July 17. Munna had filed a general diary with the Kotwali police in this connection two days after his father had gone missing.
Several days after the filing of the general diary, Munna went into hiding, said another general diary Munna's elder brother Mahmud Chowdhury filed with the police, the police added.
Source : New Age
