UNB, Dhaka :
Over two months after death of a marine engineer under mysterious circumstances in the city, investigating agency, Detective Branch (DB) in this case, is claiming of making inroads in probing the incident.
But father of Rafiqul Hasan Rimon, who was found dead in an under-construction building in the city onDecember 17 last year, is now struggling to keep faith in DB probe any longer and asking for a proper investigation by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI). Victim’s father Mohammad Khalilullah alleged that the investigation agency is trying to prove his son as a drug addict and his ‘murder’ an accident.
The investigation officer (IO) of the case, however, claimed that there has been a ‘remarkable progress’ in the probe. The body of Rimon, 42, an Uttara resident and a captain of a foreign ship, was found on the ground floor of an 11-storey under-construction building in Sukraband on the night ofDecember 17, aday after he had gone missing. Rimon’s father filed a case with New Market Police Station the following day over the incident. The case was later transferred to the DB and its inspector Alamgir given the charge of investigation.
Talking to UNB, Khalilullah alleged that his son was killed in a planned way following a dispute over his flat, which has been ‘grabbed’ by Sajedul Karim Rony, one of their distant relatives. “But the investigation agency is not paying any heed to the issue; rather it has been trying to establish that my son died due to fall from the height,” he said. He claimed that Rimon was forcibly taken to the under-construction building where he was tortured to death and then the body was thrown from the building. “We want the killers to be brought to justice through impartial investigation. However, the DB is mysteriously reluctant to unearth the mystery behind the killing and it is also trying to establish that my son was a drug addict,” Khalilullah claimed.
He said that the family wants PBI, a specialised police unit, to investigate the incident.
