'Stalkers kill' girl's father
Stalkers strangled the father of a schoolgirl in Muktagachha municipality of Mymensingh early yesterday, alleged the victim's family.
The 45-year-old day labourer was found dead by the roadside.
Family members said tea stall worker Katu Miah, 26, of Syedpara area, along with his friends Dipu, Ashu, Taher, Rakib and Lal Miah, used to stalk the class V student.
Her father protested it several times but the stalkers threatened to teach his family a good lesson, said the victim's cousin, Monir Hossain Monu, president of ward no-8 Awami League of Muktagachha municipality.
On Thursday afternoon, when the man with his wife and daughter was returning from a relative's house in a nearby village, Katu waylaid them and beat them up, Monu said.
In fear the girl's father went back to his relative's house with his family and was returning home alone around 2:00am when Katu and his accomplices caught and strangled him, he said.
Jahangir Alam, local ward councillor, confirmed that the girl was stalked by Katu and said the rope used in the murder was found beside the body.
He demanded immediate arrest of the killers.
Abu Mohammad Fazlul Karim, officer-in-charge of Muktagachha Police Station, said the body was sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for autopsy.
“Without the autopsy report, we can't say whether it was a suicide or murder,” he said. The OC said Katu was on the run. A case was filed.
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