NGO director found dead in city
A director of an NGO was found dead in his bedroom in the city's Green Road yesterday morning.
Police and relatives of the deceased suspected the incident as a murder but his wife termed it a natural death.
The body of Abul Kashem, 52, who worked for Resource Development Foundation (RDF) was recovered from the first floor of Suvastu Tower around 10:30am.
Enamul Haque, OC of Kalabagan Police Station, told The Daily Star that he found a scratch mark on the victim's neck.
Police picked up Kashem's wife Fatema Kausar alias Lazu, their son Towfique Evan and one of Evan's friends for interrogation.
Lazu told The Daily Star at the police station that her husband felt ill around 3:30am and was sweating profusely. Lazu said she took him to the bathroom where Kashem fell on the floor and his head was hit by a bucket. She said she poured water on his head.
As he felt a little better she took him back to the bedroom and slept around 4:00am. When Lazu rose around 6:30am she found her husband dead, she claimed.
Evan, a student of a private university, told police that he and his friend slept in a separate room. Hearing his mother's cry in the morning, they went to his parent's room and found his father dead.
Kashem's nephew Abdul Mannan alleged that his aunt had an extra marital affair with the tutor of Evan. The couple had long been quarreling over the matter. He suspected that his aunt Lazu strangled his uncle.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy.
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