Two held for killing British citizen

A Bangladeshi-born British citizen was found dead on January 6 in front of a drug rehabilitation centre in Moulvibazar town, where he had been receiving treatment.

Police recovered the body of Jalal Uddin, 45, with several injury marks on it, from inside an ambulance parked in front of Uddipon Drug Healing Center in the upazila around 9:00pm.

Moulvibazar Model Police Station Sub-Inspector Gias Uddin conducted an operation in the town and Srimangal upazila town on Monday night and arrested two people in this connection.

The arrestees are Uddipon Rehab Center Director Suhel Miah, 36, son of Lutfur Rahman Khan, of Kaziranga (East) village under Sadar upazila, and his assistant Ripon Miah, 29, of the same area.

Jalal's family members claim that he was murdered.

His relatives said Jalal went to his uncle's house in the UK during his childhood and stayed there until last April, when he was sent back to Bangladesh by his uncle's family due to his increased addiction to drugs.

After living a normal life for the first few months in Bangladesh, he started taking drugs once again from last October, said his cousin Shahinur Abedin.

Jalal's family members admitted him to the rehabilitation centre on December 29 as his condition deteriorated, Shahinur added.

Victim's mother Ruksana Akhter said she received a phone call from the rehab authorities around 7:00pm on January 6. They told her that they admitted her son to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital after he fell seriously ill, she said.

“Finding no one named Jalal admitted to the hospital, we went to the rehab centre and found nobody on its premises,” she added.

“After thoroughly searching the whole building, we finally discovered the body inside an ambulance parked in the courtyard of the building,” Ruksana said.

 “It was a murder and there is no doubt as the body had numerous injury marks on it,” the victim's uncle Emadul Haque said.

Resident Medical Officer of the hospital Polash Kumar Roy said he found many injury marks on the body.