Staff Reporter :
A man was stabbed to death by miscreants when he tried to resist a gang of abductors from kidnapping his 17-year-old daughter in Raghunathpur area under Fatullah upazila in Narayanganj district early Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Manindra Chandra, 52, a rickshaw puller and who was also a night guard.
Police arrested six persons in this connection. Five of them are Tanvir, Jewel, S S Piter alias Jahid Hasan, Monirul Islam and Shushanta.
A local court has already placed them on a three-day remand.
Police also seized two micro buses, some swords and country made arms during the drive.
Meanwhile, local people detained Hridoy, another accomplice of Tuhin . He was admitted to a local hospital in a critical condition.
Quoting local people, Fatullah Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) Abdur Razzak said, “One of Monindro’s three daughters reportedly fell in love with a boy named Tuhin from Dhaka. But Monindro settled his daughter’s marriage with another person without her consent.
“Following the move, Tuhin and his friends went to the victim’s house around 6am to pick up his daughter. At one stage of scuffle between the gang and the family members, Tuhin hacked Mohindro to death. Hearing the inmates’ cry for help, locals rushed in and caught four miscreants and handed them over to police.”
Later, the neighbours detained Tuhin and handed him over to the police. But, Tuhin managed to flee the scene, the police official said.
The victim’s wife filed a case in this connection, he said.
When asked, Manindro’s daughter denied the accusation that she had a love affair with Tuhin.
She said: “He [Tuhin] proposed me several times to marry him. But I refused him.
“He has been threatening to kill my father and abduct me after he came to know about my marriage.”
The body was criminated at Pagla in the district in the evening.
