Murder of 3 Youths: Nothing known, none arrested

Police are yet to find any clues to the murder of the three youths whose bullet-hit bodies were recovered from Purbachal in Rupganj on Friday.They are also yet to arrest anyone in connection with the murders.

Rupganj Police Station OC Maniruzzaman said they could not know who was responsible for the murders and they were still investigating the matter. He added that a case was filed over the murders on Friday night.

The victims' relatives, however, suspect that some men from a law enforcement agency were involved with the murder.

Family members said the three men were returning to their Dhaka homes from Jhenidah by a bus when they last contacted them.

Staffers of the bus told them that around 15 to 20 men in vests emblazoned with the letters DB picked them up from the bus which was near Paturia Ferry Ghat of Manikganj at that time.

They added that the victims did not have any feud with anybody and they demanded an investigation and proper trial of the killers.

Of the three dead -- Nur Hossain Babu, 30, and his brother-in-law Shimul Azad, 25, traded garment factories' leftover fabrics in Mugda area of the capital.

Visiting Mohakhali Dakhhinpara in Banani, this correspondent met locals who said deceased Sohag was a local cable TV operator.

Banani police officials said two of the dead -- Shimul and Sohag -- lived in Banani and were accused in several cases, including over drug peddling.

Sohag's relatives confirmed that he was accused in a murder case as a police source was killed in front of his house. However, he later received bail.

Police recovered the bodies around 8:00am from a culvert in Purbachal area, Maniruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Rupganj Police Station, said.

He said officers also found 65 yaba pills in Shimul's pocket.

Bullet wounds were seen in the head and chest of each of the bodies, he said.

When the families failed to contact the three men, they went to the DB office in the capital's Minto Road where officers said they didn't know anything about the matter.

Police later contacted the family members who identified the bodies at Narayanganj General Hospital morgue.

Monirul Islam, additional superintendent of police (admin) in Narayanganj, said there was no DB operation in Narayanganj at the time of the incident.

“We just recovered the bodies. If the family members lodge a complaint, we would record a case,” he said.

Family members received the bodies after autopsy.

Our Narayanganj correspondent contributed to this report.