Bank official 'kills himself'
A senior official of Al-Arafah Islami Bank died after falling from the seventh floor of its office building at Motijheel in the city yesterday.
Enamul Haque Ratan, 48, first assistant vice president of the bank, fell on the cornice of the third floor of the 18-storey building around 9:15am, said Hasanuzzaman Mollah, inspector (investigation) of Motijheel Police Station.
The inspector suspected that Ratan might have committed suicide as a suicide note was found from his possession. He said Ratan might have pushed aside the windowpane and jumped off to the ground.
The note read, “I have finished off myself because of the behaviour of some people.” He also mentioned names of some persons in the note. Police denied to disclose the names for the sake of investigation.
Fire Brigade and Civil Defence personnel recovered the body and handed it over to police. The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Managing Director of the bank Ekramul Hoque told The Daily Star that Ratan joined the bank as an officer in 2001. He had been holding the present post at the head office at Motijheel since 2005.
Ekramul Hoque said after talking to his staff and scrutinizing the office records, he found that he had no feud with any of them and was not superseded by anybody in the service.
He said if police had found any suicide note it will investigate and take action accordingly.
Hoque said Ratan usually came to office at around 9:30am but yesterday he came at 9:00 am, security guards of the bank told him.
Ratan's brother Shahidul Haque could not ascertain any reason behind the incident.
Ratan's wife Selina Begum is a teacher at a college at Keraniganj. They have a son who is a student of class-IX at University Laboratory School. They live at Azimpur New Paltan in the capital.
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