UNB, Tangail :A Hindu tailor was chopped to death by assailants at Dubail Bazar in Gopalpur upazila on Saturday. Assistant police super (Gopalpur circle) Jamir Uddin said three youths riding a motorcycle appeared before the tailoring shop of Nikhil Chandra Joarder, 45, son of late Nolini Kanta Joardar, at Dubail Bazar near his house around 11:30 am while he was working there and called him out of the shop.Later, they chopped Nikhil with sharpweapons indiscriminately, leaving him dead on the spot, he said. The assailants fled the scene leaving a bag containing some crude bombs.On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Tangail Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.Nikhil had served three months jail two years back for his derogatory comments about Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), said Jamir Uddin.Local people said, Nikhil might have been killed over the issue. Police said Nikhil’s nephew (brother’s daughter) Swarna divorced her husband some days ago and Nikhil had a role in the divorce.The family members of Swarna’s husband had been giving death threat to Nikhil, police further said. Officer-in-Charge of Gopalpur Police Station Abdul Jalil said Nikhil might have been killed by his rivals over land dispute.
