The New Nation - Internet Edition

Our Correspondent, Barisal

Police have unearthed mystery on murder of Sumon Das, alias Kalu, a sales representative of Uniliver agent of Gournadi under Barisal upazila within five days of murder.

Until this report, police arrested two killers and busy with recording statement of three witnesses before Khademul Kayes, additional chief judicial magistrate of Barisal on Tuesday evening.

Towfiq Mahbub Chowdhury, Barisal district police super, Muhammad Ali Biswas, officer in charge, Md. Shafiq, sub inspector and investigation officer of Agoiljhara police station, Md. Al-Amin, Gournadi circle inspector of police, described their success story to the journalists on Tuesday.

They said that police arrested Anwar on Friday, Ruhul on Monday as suspected killers and according to their convenience statement recovered more than 69,802 taka out of 1.7 lakhs taka looted from the victim by the killers, and blood soaked bags, dresses, sharp weapons used in killing and other evidences.

The two arrestees handed over to court and sent to jail after interrogation under remand ended on Tuesday.

Anwar Bakhtiar, a grocery shopkeeper and customer of Uniliver, Ruhul Amin, a construction worker of Paisarhut Bazaar under Agoiljhara upazila, the arrested two in interrogation under remand and Alamin, Hasina Begum and Giasuddin, 3 witnesses and relatives of Anwar in confessional statements, said that Kalu went to supply goods and collect bills at the shop of Anwar on Wednesday evening.

At that time, Anwar became greedy by knowing that Kalu carrying 1.7 lakhs taka cash and he called Kalu at the underground godown for business talk. While Kalu was busy with counting money, Anwar hit on his head with an oil-barrel opener and Kalu died at the spot on Wednesday night. Then with the help of Palash Bakhtiar, brother of Anwar, Ruhul and Sarwar Soru, their neighbors, chopped the dead body, packed it in a sack carried to Paisarhut River bank and drowned the sack by tying bricks with the dead body on early Thursday night, the arrested two killers and witnesses described.

It may be mention chopped and sack packed dead body of Suman Das Kalu, an employee of a local Unilever agent of Torki Badar under Gournadi upazila of Barisal was found in the River Paisarhat at Agailjhara .