Indian bus driver found dead in city restroom

Staff Correspondent
Police found an Indian bus driver dead in a Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) restroom at Kamalapur in the city yesterday. The deceased, Rajkumar Gupta, 47, was the driver of a BRTC bus of Dhaka-Kolkata route. He resided on Christopher road at Tengra in Kolkata in Paschimbanga. According to police, Rajkumar reached Dhaka with a trip from Kolkata around 11:00pm on Friday. Later, he went to the BRTC staff restroom on Kabi Jasimuddin road to sleep. When BRTC staffs went to the room to call him for the return trip to Kolkata around 9:30am, he didn't respond. Being informed, police broke open the restroom door, which was locked from inside, and found him dead. Police sent the body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy. Sub-Inspector Abdul Latif of Motijheel Police Station said Rajkumar had died in his sleep. Police found no sign of injury on his body, he said adding that, the reason of his death will be identified after autopsy.