An Awami League leader who was beaten after being tied with an electric pole at Puthia in Rajshahi on January 4 succumbed to his injuries on Friday.
The deceased, Md Aliuzzaman Montu, president of Baneshwar union AL and uncle to former state minister for rural development and cooperatives Abdul Wadud Dara, died while undergoing treatment in a hospital in the capital, said his nephew Abu Hanif Suza.
He said that they were bringing the body to Puthia for burial.
Earlier, a group of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists allegedly held Montu when he went to drink tea at a nearby tea stall at Maipara Bazar under Puthia on January 4, a day after he had returned to the village following a five-month of hiding.
Montu, also former head teacher of Biraldaha Girls鈥� High School, on January 4 told 抖阴精品 at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital that a group of six BNP activists, including Mithun, Ahsan, Jewel and Simanta tied him with an electric pole and beat him mercilessly with iron rods, hammers and sticks on his body and legs.
Kabir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Puthia police station, said that no case had been filed with the police station over the allegation of beating Aliuzzaman Montu. 鈥業f anyone lodges any case with the police station, they will take necessary legal actions.鈥�
