district lawyers' association former president Shamsul Islam Chowdhury, who went missing on July 17, was killed by his younger son Munna as Shamsul Islam did not agree to transfer the family property to him, the Rapid Action Battalion said on Saturday.
Munna, with the help of his accomplices, injected Shamsul Islam with sedatives at around 10:30pm on July 17 when he was offering prayers of Shab-e-Barat. They then dumped the senseless body in the Surma river at Chhatak in Sunamganj to ensure the death of the former bar president, the RAB-9 told a press briefing at the battalion headquarters at Islampur in Sylhet city at midday.
Three of Munna's accomplices – Mohammad Bhurhan, 30, son of the late Jamir Ali, and Islmail Hosen Ranu, 24, son of Abdul Motaleb, of Chandipur village, and Ansar Ali, 25, son of Suruj Ali, of Bauli village under Doara upazila of Sunamganj – were arrested on Friday night on charge of killing Shamsul Islam.
In a written statement, RAB-9 second-in-command major Zahid said Shamsul Islam Chowdhury's younger son Masud Ahmed Chowdhury Munna pushed sedative injections into his father's body to make him unconscious and then tortured him on July 17 at night.
Later, in the same night, Munna took his father's unconscious body to a place near Andargan under Chhatak upazila and dropped the body in the Surma, Zahid said quoting the arrested.
The RAB official said Munna had fled to India crossing the border at Tekerghat in Sunamganj after several days of the incident.
Shamsul Islam was reported to be missing from his Mirboxtula house in Sylhet city on July 17. After two days, Munna filed a general diary with Sylhet Kotwali police station in this connection.
Several days after that, Munna went into hiding, his elder brother Mahmud Chowdhury alleged in another general diary filed with the Kotwali police station, police sources said.
Shamsul Islam had been living at his Mirboxtula residence along with his younger son for several years as his elder son lived in Dhaka, the family sources said.
Source : New Age
