Cop source killed
Unidentified men stabbed to death a source of Jatrabari police in the capital's Jatrabari yesterday.
The men took Alamgir Hossain, 26, to an under-construction building in Uttar Jatrabari at around 12:30am and stabbed him indiscriminately. When the locals came forward hearing Alamgir's screams, the men fled, said witnesses.
The building's security guard called police, who rushed Alamgir to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Mazharul Islam of Jatrabari Police Station suspected that Alamgir was killed for recently giving a deposition in a case over the murder of his friend Amir, who was also a police source.
Being a witness to the murder last year, Alamgir had been receiving threats over phone by some local criminals so as not to give deposition against them, he said.
However, Alamgir's brother-in-law, Din Islam Robin, said Alamgir was a “lineman”, extorting money from the stop of small passenger vehicles and distributing it among police and local political and transport leaders.
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