Staff Reporter :
The members of law enforcing agencies are hunting for prime suspect and caretaker of the house of the slain Brigadier General (retd) Wazy Ahmed Chowdhury.
The caretaker of the house Abdul Ahad went into hiding after the murder, said Masud Ahmed, Deputy Commissioner (Mirpur Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Brig Gen (retired) Wazy Ahmed Chowdhury was found dead at his residence at
New DOHS in the capital’s Mohakhali area on Wednesday morning. The deceased’s younger son Fuad Ahmed Chowdhury spotted the body of Wazy when his neck, hands and legs were tied up with rope in their flat at New DOHS around 3:45am on Wednesday.
The deceased nephew Rishad Ahmed Chowdhury on Thursday filed a murder case in this connection with the Kafrul Police Station. We are investigating the cease seriously and the killer will be arrested soon, the DC, Mirpur Division, said. According to the case, Abdul Ahad has been mentioned as the prime suspect of the killing of Wazy Ahmed Chowdhury. Ahad was appointed as caretaker about two months ago. He went into hiding with a laptop, mobile phone, several thousand taka in cash and some valuable things.
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Forensic Department’s Associate Professor Sohel Ahmed said, “The retired army person was suffocated to death. The black injury marks were found in the neck and heel of the right leg.”
Rishad Ahmed Chowdhury said, “We recovered the 76-year old Wazy Ahmed Chowdhury with a pool of blood from the under-lock room on the second floor of the five-storied building at DHOS house Road No 4 on Wednesday morning.
“Wazy Ahmed Chowdhury retired from Army in 1992 and hailed from Golapganj upazila of Sylhet district. His wife Atia Chowdhury died six years ago and their elder son Nabid Ahmed Chowdhury has been living in the USA for ten years while the younger son Fuad Ahmed Chowdhury lives with his father,” he said.
Wazy Ahmed Chowdhury’s body will be taken to his home district Sylhet for burial, said Rashed.
It is to be noted that his son Fuad took him to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) where doctors declared him dead.
A team of police recovered the body from CMH and sent it to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy, said Kafrul Police Station Sub-Inspector Mukul Mia.
