The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Habibur Rahman Liton, an employee of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), was stabbed to death over drug dealings at Karwan Bazar in the city yesterday.

The deceased was the son of Nurul Islam of Narsingdi. He was also a drug trader, police said. Liton was a fourth class employee of the DMCH and suspended one year ago for lifting medicine. He was wanted in some cases, including extortion and repression on women.

Police, however, arrested three youths on charge of the killing.

IO of the murder case Tejgaon thana SI Jahirul Islam said five youths called Liton out of his DMCH Staff Quarter at Elephant road Thursday midnight saying that they need some bottles of phensidyl.

The youths in two motorbikes took Liton to an unknown place and bought two bottles of banned Indian cough syrup at Tk 1,000.

After taking the syrups, they locked in an altercation with Liton over their previous dealings. At one stage of the brawl, the addicted people stabbed Liton to death and left the body on the footpath in front of Hotel Westin. They also informed police about the body.

Police found Liton's body at about 3:30am and sent it to DMCH morgue for autopsy.

A case was filed with Tejgaon police station.

SI Jahirul Islam also said police recovered one of the motorbikes used by the killers and picked up Suman, 20 Sohel, 19, Suma, 22. The arrested confessed their involvement in the murder, he added.