Criminals kill businessman
Locals demonstrate with body for arrest of culprits in Ctg
A businessman was stabbed to death and another injured in an attack by criminals in CDA Residential area of Chittagong city Friday night.
Meanwhile, aggrieved locals with the body in an ambulance staged a rally on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in City Gate area yesterday afternoon for around one and a half hours demanding the killers’ arrest and removal of Akbar Shah police officer-in-charge, said witnesses.
They alleged that the OC Abdur Razzak sheltered the criminals for extortion.
The deceased Md Belal, 35, of Uttar Kattoli area, ran a container depot, SR Trading, at Pakka Rastar Matha in the city.
Denying the allegation, Razzak said Belal had a longstanding dispute with one Khorshed Alam alias Roni over the land on which the depot was situated.
However, Hasan Mostafa, brother of Belal, said around eight extortionists, including Roni, Fakhrul and Pavel, halted a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in front of Provati school in the area around 10:00pm. Belal along with his another brother and some friends were returning home in the auto-rickshaw. Later, the gang stabbed them with sharp weapons.
Sometimes the extortionists demanded money from his brother Belal and they attacked him as he wanted to inform police of the matter, Hasan said.
Belal was declared dead at Chittagong Medical College Hospital around 11:30pm, he added.
The body was sent to CMCH morgue for autopsy.
Morgue sources said the body bore several stab injuries to the chest, back and legs.
-With The Daily Star input
