The badly injured victim Mahbub Alam Liton, 35, is the owner of a sawmill in Dhaka Cantonment area.

Liton told The Daily Star that five people in army uniform and two in plain clothes, including captain Shibli, took him to an army camp in Shahbagh around 7:00am from his home yesterday. In the camp Shibli, a captain of engineering corps, and the other plainclothes person, who claimed to be a major, beat him up for half an hour.

He alleged that they forced him to sign some documents following the beating and dropped him off in front of Concept Tower on Green Road, where he has a condominium on the ninth floor.

Family members of Liton and residents of Concept Tower rushed him to Samorita Hospital on Panthapath.

Doctors attending Liton said his body bore several injury marks and he was in severe pain. They said they would carry out tests for internal injuries.

Liton in Samorita Hospital told The Daily Star that captain Shibli's mother owns a flat in Concept Tower on the 13th floor, which she rents out to tenants.

Secretary of the Concept Tower flat owners' association said a number of the condominium owners, including Liton who is an executive member of the association, had a month-long row with a few of the owners over the raising of a wall near the lift on the 13th floor.

Liton said Shibli threatened him over cellphone on June 8 saying, "You have gone too far with the 13th floor...'ll show you what the army is." Liton told Shibli to take care of the matter himself and hung up the phone.

Liton's wife Meher Afroz told The Daily Star that she wanted to file a case accusing captain Shibli and six unidentified army personnel with Dhanmondi Police Station but the police refused to accept the case.

She said the on-duty officer told her that they could not accept the case as army related cases did not fall under their jurisdiction and suggested that she lodge her complaint with the army camp near Science Laboratory. Afroz went to the army camp and submitted a written complaint against Shibli and the six others.

When The Daily Star contacted the Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) about the incident it could not comment on the issue saying they were unaware of the incident.