Staff Reporter :
A Jubo Dal leader was allegedly beaten to death by some employees of Sakura Restaurant & Bar centering a dispute over transaction of money in the city’s Paribagh area early Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Md Jonny, 32, a former member of the Convening Committee of
Juba Dal, Ward No 21 unit in the city. Jonny, hailing from Munshiganj district, was also a flower trader in the city’s Shahbagh area and resided at Mohammadpur.
Law enforcers recovered his blood stained body from in front of the bar house around 12:45am.
Police detained 46 people, including the bar’s manager, for interrogation in this connection.
Maruf Hossain Sardar, Deputy Commissioner (Ramna Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said, We have heard that a group of men from the bar began to beat him. Something may have happened inside but we are unable to confirm it.”
Jonny was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared him dead, the DC said.
The bar’s manager Mostafa Kamal and his son Asif are among the 46 detained people, the police official added.
The bar was sealed off temporarily as per police orders, he said.
Shahbagh Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abul Hasan said the bar authorities might have killed him and put the body in front of the restaurant to avoid the responsibility of the murder.
The inquest report found injury marks on the body and his right leg was broken, the OC said.
“We are investigating into the incident to know whether there is any political involvement and transaction with the bar owner”, he said, adding that he was an accused in a murder case of flower trader Selim Shahi, former president of Juba Dal Ward No 57.
The filing of a case with the police station was under process on Monday night.
A Jubo Dal leader was allegedly beaten to death by some employees of Sakura Restaurant & Bar centering a dispute over transaction of money in the city’s Paribagh area early Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Md Jonny, 32, a former member of the Convening Committee of
Juba Dal, Ward No 21 unit in the city. Jonny, hailing from Munshiganj district, was also a flower trader in the city’s Shahbagh area and resided at Mohammadpur.
Law enforcers recovered his blood stained body from in front of the bar house around 12:45am.
Police detained 46 people, including the bar’s manager, for interrogation in this connection.
Maruf Hossain Sardar, Deputy Commissioner (Ramna Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said, We have heard that a group of men from the bar began to beat him. Something may have happened inside but we are unable to confirm it.”
Jonny was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared him dead, the DC said.
The bar’s manager Mostafa Kamal and his son Asif are among the 46 detained people, the police official added.
The bar was sealed off temporarily as per police orders, he said.
Shahbagh Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abul Hasan said the bar authorities might have killed him and put the body in front of the restaurant to avoid the responsibility of the murder.
The inquest report found injury marks on the body and his right leg was broken, the OC said.
“We are investigating into the incident to know whether there is any political involvement and transaction with the bar owner”, he said, adding that he was an accused in a murder case of flower trader Selim Shahi, former president of Juba Dal Ward No 57.
The filing of a case with the police station was under process on Monday night.
