Handcuffed dead body of opposition leader found
Police recovered the handcuffed dead body of a BNP leader from Kushtia on Saturday night, around three hours after he was allegedly picked up by Rab members from Jhenidah. Rab denies as usual.
Spot: Jhenidah/Kushtia and RAB Operation Zone: RAB-6
By Bangladesh Media; Police recovered the handcuffed body of a BNP leader from Kushtia on
Saturday night, around three hours after he was allegedly picked up by
Rab members from Jhenidah.
The dead, Rafiqul Islam Mazumdar, was
the general secretary of BNP's ward-56 unit of Dhaka City Corporation,
reports our Kushtia correspondent. He was also vice-president of Bangabazar Super Market in Dhaka and a resident of Shanir Akhara in the capital.

“He [the victim] might have been killed over past enmity in the capital,” added Zoynul.
Earlier on June 25, 2010, president of ward-56 BNP Chowdhury Alam disappeared never to be seen again in public.
Rafiqul,
39, went to Savar from his Shanir Akhara house on Friday morning from
where he went to his in-law's house at Anandanagar village in Shailkupa
upazila of Jhenidah, family sources said.
His mother-in-law Lipi
Khatun said, "Seven people came to our house on a microbus around 7:30pm
on Saturday and introduced themselves as members of Rapid Action
Battalion." “They were all armed and wearing Rab uniforms,” Lipi said, adding that they handcuffed Rafiqul and went away within 15 minutes.
“They
asked us to contact with Rab-6 office in Jhenidah,” said Abu Sayeed,
brother-in-law of Rafiqul, adding that the microbus that carried the
seven-member group had a sticker of Rab-6 pasted on it.
“We
contacted the Rab-6 office in the evening repeatedly, but Rab officials
told us that they were not aware of the incident,” Abu Sayeed added.
Informed
by the family members, a team of Jhenidah Sadar Police Station led by
Officer-in-charge Abdul Bari visited Rafiqul's in-law's house around
9:30pm. “We asked them [family member] to lodge a GD [general diary] in
this connection but they did not do so,” the OC told The Daily Star
yesterday.
Later around 11:00pm, police recovered the body from
Adabaria-Monohordia field in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia, 20
kilometres off the in-law's house, said Ali Newaz, OC of Kumarkhali
Police Station.
“Rafiqul was strangled by his muffler and his face and head bore a few injury marks,” Ali added.
Contacted,
Hamidul Haq, squadron leader and also camp in-charge of Rab-6, said:
"Rafiqul's in-laws contacted with us in the evening [of Saturday] but we
confirmed them that Rab-6 did not pick Rafiqul up."
Forced disappearances and subsequent recovery of bodies have seen an alarming rise in the last four years.
Between
2009 and 2012, at least 156 people were the victim of forced
disappearance, Sultana Kamal, executive director of rights body Ain o
Salish Kendra, said in November last year.
In many cases, family
members of the victims hold members of law enforcers responsible for
such disappearances and deaths, although law enforcement agencies
dismiss the allegations.
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