UP chairman found dead after Rab raid on his house
Staff Correspondent, Khulna
A union parishad (UP) chairman of Bagerhat Sadar upazila was found dead yesterday two and a half hours after Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) made a futile attempt to arrest him in a pre-dawn raid on his house.Rab claimed that Shaikh Liton, 34, chairman of Karhapara UP, had managed to escape when they raided his house at 3:30am but his wife alleged that her husband was killed by Rab after arrest. The body of Liton, also president of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal Bagerhat town unit, was recovered from near Monica cinema of the southern district town at 6:00am. Farid Uddin, officer-in-charge of Bagerhat Police Station, said they found the body with fatal injuries in his head. A Rab press release said they recovered two revolvers and two rounds of bullets from Liton's house. A case was filed with Sadar Police Station under Arms Act. Liton had alleged links with Janajuddho, a faction of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party, intelligence agency sources claimed.
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