CID official, staffer assaulted with hammers in capital

A police official and his employee were assaulted with hammers over a land dispute in Dhaka's Mohammadpur yesterday afternoon.

Gazi Mizanur Rahman (50), an inspector of Criminal Investigation Department in Narayanganj, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

He needed 26 stitches on his head after the assault, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police outpost.

Golam Mostafa (42), the CID inspector's caretaker, was also receiving treatment at the hospital.

Injured Mizanur alleged that a group of eight people from a local housing group attacked them around 1pm while Mostafa was working on the boundary wall of his five-katha land in Bosila Garden City.

"They beat us with hammers over a land dispute," the CID officer said, lying on a bed at the hospital.

On information, his relatives rushed there and took them to the hospital.

Abdul Latif, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station, said Mizanur is badly injured and has not filed a complaint yet, but they have begun an investigation.