Staff Reporter :Four days after missing from the city’s Dhanmondi area, the body of Hassan Khaled, President of Dutch-Bangla Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DBCCI), was found in Buriganga river on Tuesday.Keraniganj Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Ilias Sharif said that they recovered the floating body from Kholamora Ghat area near Kamrangichor of Keraniganj following information in the afternoon.Police confirmed the identity of Hassan Khaled, 55, through a visiting card found with the body, the SI said. Few hours before the recovery of the body, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia told reporters that police informed the missing news of Hassan Khaled through wireless to all police stations across the country to trace him alive.”We have taken all types of steps to trace Hasan based on information from the members of family and office,” he said. The DMP boss said that several teams of law enforcing agencies worked in the field to find him in any means. He also informed that a police official already has been assigned to investigate the missing incident. The body of Hassan Khaled was found floating in Keraniganj area of Buriganga river on Tuesday afternoon, Dhanmondi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Noor-a-Azam Miah told The New Nation.He claimed that no injury mark was found in the body by preparing the inquest report but it has been swollen.”We will be sure about the body after receiving the postmortem report,” the OC said. “Police were clueless about Hassan’s whereabouts. They went through surveillance cameras in the neighborhood but could not reach any definitive conclusion,” the OC said. In a query, he admitted that we had failed to trace him alive after taking all steps by filing a general dairy in this regard on Saturday night. The body has been sent to Mitford Hospital for autopsy, the police official said. Hassan’s brother-in-law Shariful Alam said that he left his Dhanmondi home around 9:00am Saturday to buy medicines from a nearby shop but did not return.”We could not reach him by phone, as it was found switched off. We looked for him in different areas of the capital. Failing to trace him, we filed a general diary (GD) with the police station the next day (Sunday), he said.His death was mysterious as no one demanded money from the family members and also he had no enemy so far, Shariful Alam said. Hassan is one of the founders of the DBCCI, established in November 1999 and also the chief executive officer of New Era Trading, he said. He has been involved in advocating bilateral trade between Bangladesh and the Netherlands, he said. Hassan Khaled was a student of Dhaka University in the 1980s. He was also the Managing Director of Chemico Bangladesh Ltd.Dhanmodi Police Station SI and the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Khairul Islam said that Hassan was involved with export-import and plastic goods trade for the last 25 years.
