Missing man found dead in Rajshahi

block
UNB, Rajshahi :
Police recovered hanging body of a man from a mango orchard at Bodarpara Fatepur in Charghat upazila on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Mantu Sheikh,45, son of Ajmat Ali, a resident of the same village.
Nasima Begum, wife of the deceased, said Mantu had remained missing since he went out of the house at about 12:00 am on Thursday.
Local people spotted his body hanging from tree at a mango orchard in the area in the morning and informed police.
Police recovered the body and sent it to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Nasima added Mantu and his brothers had long been at loggerheads over the ownership of a piece of land.
She alleged that Mantu was strangulated to death and the body was kept hanging with the tree.
Khandakar Golam Mortuja, officer-in-charge of Charghat Police Station, said police suspected that Mantu might have been killed over a land-related dispute.
Nasima filed a murder case against five people in this connection.
block