Rony's Death
Family labels it as pre-planned killing
The family of a youth, who died in what police claimed an “exchange of gunfire” with criminals at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday, claimed that it was a pre-planned killing over a land-related feud.
Monir Hossain, maternal cousin of the deceased Shahadat Hossain Rony, 18, yesterday said Rony left his Kaundia residence in Savar after receiving a phone call around 8:30am on Saturday and they received the news of his death at 7:00pm.
Later they came to know that Rony, a second-year student at Mirpur Government Bangla College, had gone to visit a friend's aunt in Bagbari area of Kashimpur, he said.
The friend, Nayan, is one of the six police arrested after the exchange of gunfire.
The aunt's daughter, Kamrun Nahar, said Nayan and his friends, including Rony, came to their house and left after taking lunch.
Kamrun said two of their neighbours, with whom they had a dispute over an 82-decimal land since 1985, had used Detective Branch (DB) of Police to kill Rony, arrest the six and stage the gunfight to grab the land.
Rony's family claimed that there was no case filed against Rony.
Ashulia Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Badrul Alam said DB filed a murder case and an arms case with the police station over Saturday's incident.
Dhaka DB OC Wahiduzzaman denied Kamrun's allegations, stating that there were many witnesses to the gunfire exchange.
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