A local Awami League leader, who is also a former ward councilor of Nawapara Municipality, was hacked to death reportedly by a group of supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on the bank of the River Bhairab near Nawapara Highway Police Station in Jashore district on Saturday night.
The victim, Ziauddin Palash, 45, is the general secretary of Nawapara Municipality鈥檚 ward number 4 unit of the AL and a former councilor of the ward.
Local people, immediately after the incident, caught BNP activist Rias Uddin on the spot for his alleged involvement in the killing and gave him a good beating before the police rescued Rias at about 10:00pm on Saturday, said police.聽
Abhaynagar police station officer-in-charge Emadul Karim said that they heard the news at about 9:30pm and reached the spot within 20 minutes.
鈥榃hen police reached the spot, local people fled the scene leaving Rias injured. We have detained Rias,鈥� the OC said and added that the victim was taken to the Abhaynagar Upazila Health Complex where duty doctors declared him dead.
Jashore district superintendent of police Ziauddin Ahmed told 抖阴精品 that they came to know that the victim and Rais had enmity over a tender for taking a jetty on lease.
鈥榃e have heard from one or two people that Raisuddin is involved in BNP politics鈥e is a fertiliser trader,鈥� the SP added.
Md Lelin, a younger brother of the victim, told reporters that a group of miscreants killed his brother after abducting him.
The victim鈥檚 father Ibrahim Biswas, who was also a ward commissioner, was shot dead by unidentified miscreants a few years ago.
