A former director of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy was stabbed to death while his wife and a nephew were injured by a group of criminals early yesterday at his Badda home in the capital.
Family members and police suspect that the attack causing the death of former government official Nazrul Huq, 60, might have been made following a long-standing feud over his land. Nazrul retired from service one year and six months ago.
A gang of three to four criminals made the attack storming into their two-storey house on Purbanchal Road at North Badda around 12:30am.
Following the attack, locals rushed all the three injured to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared Nazrul dead.
The condition of his wife Selina Huq, 50, was stated to be critical as she suffered several stab injuries to her head and different parts of the body. Nazrul’s nephew Enamul Huq, 32, suffered injuries to his hand. He was given first aid.
Police detained four tenants of Nazrul’s house and three other neighbours.
Injured Selina told The Daily Star that the attackers swooped on them while they were asleep. “I and my husband were sleeping in our room on the first floor. The attackers were stabbing and saying that they had come to finish all of us.”
“The criminals also attacked Enamul as he came to save us,” she said. At one stage, Enamul jumped off the window.
Local people came forward when he cried out for help. By this time, the attackers fled away.
Asked, Selina said they went into sleep around 11:30pm and they did not know how the criminals entered their house.
Responding to another query, Selina said there was a feud over the boundary of their house with their neighbour Kamal Hossain, who she alleged might have arranged the attacks.
A relative of Selina said, “Six months earlier, Kamal had injured Selina and her daughter Farzana Huq Lopa. A general diary was filed in this connection.”
After the death of Nazrul, his daughter filed a case accusing Kamal and three of his family members, five tenants of Nazrul’s house and three other unidentified people.
Inspector Shahadat Hossain of Badda Police Station said they detained Kamal, Amirullah, Abdul Kahar, Rizia, Abu Raihan and two others in this connection.
-With The Daily Star input
