Staff Reporter :
The body of missing Aurangajeb Sajib was recovered from the Dhaleswari River in Moktarpur area of Munshiganj Sadar Upazila on Wednesday afternoon. Police recovered the body from the river around
3:30pm, said Mohammad Yunus, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station.
The police official said, “Local people found a body on the Dhaleswari River near Nayagaon area of Moktarpur around 3:30pm and informed the police. We recovered the body from the bank of the river and sent it to Munshiganj Sadar Hospital for an autopsy.”
Family members went to the hospital morgue receiving information and identified the body of missing Sajib, the OC said.
Family members of the deceased claimed that the police did not take any step to rescue Sajeeb even after passing of three days of mysterious missing from a launch on the Dhaka-Chandpur route.
They said that Police were silent even after filing of a General Diary (GD) with the Shahbagh Police Station in this connection.
Rather police suggested the family members to search him by their own efforts and to give police more information about him, they alleged.
When contacted, Shahbagh Police Station OC Abu Bakr Siddique, rejected the allegation and said that police tried to rescue him after the complaint.
“To rescue the missing Sajib is not the only duty of Police,” the OC said.
Sajib’s wife Morsheda Begum filed a general diary (GD) on Monday regarding the matter.
The Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) correspondent of a daily and several TV channels, Aurangajeb Sajib, was missing since Sunday morning, according to his wife.
The OC also said that Sajib’s wife Morsheda Begum filed a general diary (GD) on Monday.
He said that the police were searching for Sajib following his wife’s complaint.
Police started investigation into the incident tracking Sajib’s cell phone records.
According to the complaint, Sajib left his house at Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka for his work station DMCH on his motorcycle on Sunday morning.
His two mobile-phone handsets and his journalist’s identity card were found in a launch, MV Takwa, in Chandpur.
The 45 year old reporter was working for daily Bangladesh Protidin, and TV channels Banglavision, Somoy, Jamuna, and Independent Television.
Morsheda said that he left his house at around 7:30am on Sunday.
A person called her on phone at around 1:30pm and said his handsets and ID card of Banglavision were with Chandpur Naval Police.
She said that an employee of the launch handed the handsets and ID card to them at around 1:00pm on Sunday.
A launch employee said that a man had jumped from the vessel near Muktarpur in Munshiganj, leaving his handsets and ID card behind.
Naval Police, however, could not confirm his claim.
Morsheda said Sajib had taken her and their two children to a restaurant for dinner on Saturday night. He dropped them near their house after the dinner and said he was going to Tongi to visit a journalist who died in a road accident.
His mobile phone was off all the night, but he returned early in the morning before leaving for DMCH, she said.
His motorcycle was found parked with the key at the place where he used to park regularly at DMCH, said Inspector Mozameel Haque of the police camp.
Muktarpur Naval Police Camp Sub-Inspector Yunus Hossain said that he questioned many men, including those who were fishing in the area at the time, but no one reported of seeing anyone jumping from a launch.
The body of missing Aurangajeb Sajib was recovered from the Dhaleswari River in Moktarpur area of Munshiganj Sadar Upazila on Wednesday afternoon. Police recovered the body from the river around
3:30pm, said Mohammad Yunus, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station.
The police official said, “Local people found a body on the Dhaleswari River near Nayagaon area of Moktarpur around 3:30pm and informed the police. We recovered the body from the bank of the river and sent it to Munshiganj Sadar Hospital for an autopsy.”
Family members went to the hospital morgue receiving information and identified the body of missing Sajib, the OC said.
Family members of the deceased claimed that the police did not take any step to rescue Sajeeb even after passing of three days of mysterious missing from a launch on the Dhaka-Chandpur route.
They said that Police were silent even after filing of a General Diary (GD) with the Shahbagh Police Station in this connection.
Rather police suggested the family members to search him by their own efforts and to give police more information about him, they alleged.
When contacted, Shahbagh Police Station OC Abu Bakr Siddique, rejected the allegation and said that police tried to rescue him after the complaint.
“To rescue the missing Sajib is not the only duty of Police,” the OC said.
Sajib’s wife Morsheda Begum filed a general diary (GD) on Monday regarding the matter.
The Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) correspondent of a daily and several TV channels, Aurangajeb Sajib, was missing since Sunday morning, according to his wife.
The OC also said that Sajib’s wife Morsheda Begum filed a general diary (GD) on Monday.
He said that the police were searching for Sajib following his wife’s complaint.
Police started investigation into the incident tracking Sajib’s cell phone records.
According to the complaint, Sajib left his house at Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka for his work station DMCH on his motorcycle on Sunday morning.
His two mobile-phone handsets and his journalist’s identity card were found in a launch, MV Takwa, in Chandpur.
The 45 year old reporter was working for daily Bangladesh Protidin, and TV channels Banglavision, Somoy, Jamuna, and Independent Television.
Morsheda said that he left his house at around 7:30am on Sunday.
A person called her on phone at around 1:30pm and said his handsets and ID card of Banglavision were with Chandpur Naval Police.
She said that an employee of the launch handed the handsets and ID card to them at around 1:00pm on Sunday.
A launch employee said that a man had jumped from the vessel near Muktarpur in Munshiganj, leaving his handsets and ID card behind.
Naval Police, however, could not confirm his claim.
Morsheda said Sajib had taken her and their two children to a restaurant for dinner on Saturday night. He dropped them near their house after the dinner and said he was going to Tongi to visit a journalist who died in a road accident.
His mobile phone was off all the night, but he returned early in the morning before leaving for DMCH, she said.
His motorcycle was found parked with the key at the place where he used to park regularly at DMCH, said Inspector Mozameel Haque of the police camp.
Muktarpur Naval Police Camp Sub-Inspector Yunus Hossain said that he questioned many men, including those who were fishing in the area at the time, but no one reported of seeing anyone jumping from a launch.
