Victim was a jeweller of city’s Pallabi
The body recovered from a roadside dustbin near the Mirpur Ansar camp Saturday noon was identified as of a jewellery shop owner of the city’s Pallabi yesterday.
Ayub Ali Bhuiyan identified the body as his brother Mizanur Rahman at Dhaka Medical College morgue. Mizan, 25, was the owner of New Mizan Jewellers at Masjid Market at Mirpur-6.
Mizan was strangled to death, morgue sources said.
Ayub told The Daily Star that they are three brothers and each of them has a jewellery shop at the market. He said a youth came to his brother’s shop for three days or more in a row and told Mizan that he (the youth) would make some gold ornaments.
The man on Saturday asked Mizan to meet him with some catalogues, he said. Mizan locked the shop and went out to meet him around 11:00am as the workers of his shop were on leave. He was missing since then.
The young man around 3:00pm that day came to the market with the keys of Mizan’s shop and tried to open it, Ayub continued. “Other shop owners and I protested that he could not open the shop without Mizan”. Then the man left the place.
Ayub filed a general diary with Pallabi Police Station yesterday in this regard.
“On today’s (yesterday) newspaper I read that police recovered the body of a youth. I rushed to the morgue to find that it was my brother,” he said.
Meanwhile, police on Saturday said Zahid Hasan, a rent-a-car driver, told them that two youths hired his car from Mirpur-1 and got a travel bag into the car from a house at Mirpur-6.
The youths asked Zahid to pull over near the Ansar camp and dumped the bag into the dustbin there, the police said.
Zahid informed a patrol team of Rapid Action Battalion about the matter, and police recovered the body.
Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mirpur Police Station, said that with the help of the driver Mirpur police have identified the house at Mirpur-6 where the youths used to live.
Owner of the house told police that they rented the house on August 25 saying that they passed HSC exams this year and would try to get admission in a university. They went out on Saturday with a travel bag and they did not return after that, the OC said quoting the owner.
