Staff Reporter :
An alleged Polling agent was stabbed to death by a group of assailants in the city’s Rayer Bazar area on Sunday afternoon.
The victim identified as Sumon Sikder, 24, was socialising with friends at Rayer bazar’s Rahim Bepari Ghat at the time of the fatal attack.
He was subsequently rushed to Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctor declared him dead, said Mohammadpur Police Station Inspector Abdul Alim.
According to a few media reports, Sumon was the polling agent of Dhaka North councillor candidate at Lalmatia Women’s College voting centre.
But Syed Hasan-nur-Islam Raston, the newly-elected councillor of Dhaka North’s ward No. 32, was unable to confirm the matter.
“We are trying to find out if there was a polling agent of that name,” he said.
But Sumon’s parents told police that he was not a polling agent, said Alim.
