Elderly couple found dead in Tangail house
Police found the bodies of an elderly couple, tied to a sack of bricks, at the bottom of a drainage well beside the septic tank at their house at Rasulpur village in Tangail Sadar upazila, yesterday noon.
The victims were Anil Kumar Das, 70, a retired teacher of Rasulpur Bachhirunnechha High School and his wife Kalpana Rani Das, 55.
The couple lived alone in the ground floor of a three-storey under-construction building in the village. Their only son, Nirmol Kumar Das works as a senior officer at the head office of Bank Asia in Dhaka and their daughter, Anjana Rani Das, lives in USA.
Construction workers went to the house in the morning and found it empty, said Ananda Mohan Sarkar, Anil's cousin.
They informed the matter to his relatives and the relatives called the local union parishad (UP) chairman, he said.
Rajkumar Sarkar, chairman of Gala UP, said after the couple were not found despite searching in different places, he informed the matter to the police.
The bodies were recovered and sent to Tangail General Hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Gobinda Chandra Pal, assistant superintendent of police (Sadar Circle) in Tangail.
The method of the murder has led them to believe that they were strangled to death first and then drowned, he said.
"No signs of robbery were seen. We, however, are investigating the matter, considering all possible motives behind the gruesome murder," he added.
On the other hand, upon being informed of the killing, the couple's son, Nirmol Chandra Das, rushed to Tangail General Hospital from Dhaka. While in his car, he fainted from the unbearable mental stress. He was later given treatment at the emergency unit of the hospital.
Earlier, on the way to Tangail, Nirmol told this correspondent over phone that he had called his father at 2:30pm on Wednesday and told him he was returning the day after. "Later, I also called my father at 8:30pm on the same day but the phone switched off after ringing twice. I, however thought there was nothing wrong," he said.
"There was no money at home as I was supposed to return and pay the labourers working at the house," he said.
"My family has no previous dispute or enmity with anyone in the village. However, altercations used to happen between my parents and a few neighbours regarding a minor issue of water overflowing from our place to theirs. Besides that, my two step uncles used to demand money from my father for various reasons," he added.
Poet Rashed Rahman of Rasulpur village, also Anil's ex student, said Anil was the only son of his mother but he had four step brothers who currently live at their ancestral home.
"After Anil's son and daughter got solvent, sir bought several bighas of crop lands at the village and started constructing a three-storey building in place of his tin shed house about one and a half years ago. Sir also got some more land assets from his father-in-law," he said.
"Our sir was very honest and also a dedicated teacher in his professional life. We want the law enforcers to find his killers through proper investigation and also demand exemplary punishment of the culprits," he added.
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