The police on Friday recovered the body of senior journalist and columnist Bibhuranjan Sarkar from the Meghna River in Gazaria of Munshiganj.
Bibhuranjan, 71, a senior assistant editor of Bangla daily Ajker Patrika, had been missing since Thursday.
Kalagachhia River Police outpost in-charge Saleh Ahmed Pathan said that the body was found floating in the river near Kalagachhia under Gazaria upazila at about 3:00pm.
He said that they matched the body with the missing journalist鈥檚 photograph provided by Ramna police in Dhaka and informed Ramna police station about the body recovery.
Bibhuranjan鈥檚 relatives later went to Munshiganj and completed the identification process, he said.
He used to contribute regular columns to different media outlets.
He reportedly sent his last article to bdnews24.com Thursday morning. In a footnote, while sending the article, he wrote, 鈥榌You] can publish it as the last piece in [my] life鈥�.
In the article published in bdnews24.com on Friday, he wrote about his and his son鈥檚 illnesses, financial hardship and other struggles.
Bibhuranjan Sarkar left his Siddheshwari home in the capital Thursday morning to go to his workplace, the Ajker Patrika, in the capital鈥檚 Banasree area, but did not go there.
He had been missing since then.
Later that night, his son Wreet Sarkar filed a general diary with Ramna police station.
Born in 1954, Bibhuranjan began his journalism career in the late 1960s as a correspondent for Dainik Azad.
He completed his higher education from the Department of Bangla at Dhaka University. Over the years, he worked with several national dailies and weeklies.
He also served as the editor of Dainik Matribhoomi and Weekly Chaltipatra, and as the executive editor of Weekly Mridubhashan.
He also served as an assistant general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra Union during his student life.
During the anti-Hussein Muhammad Ershad movement in the 1980s, his political articles were published in Weekly Jaijaidin under the pseudonym of 鈥楾arikh Ibrahim鈥�.
