Questions over a 'gunfight'
A man was killed in a “gunfight” between criminals and members of the Detective Branch of police in the capital's Mugdah yesterday morning.
The family of the victim, Masud Tarek, 26, a garment worker at Adamjee EPZ in Narayanganj, however, claimed that a group of people introducing themselves as DB personnel had picked him up from his home at Dania in Kadamtali around 3:00am and killed him in a planned way.
"There are some complaints against Tarek and we are taking him for interrogation," his father Abu Jafar Sikder quoted one of reported DB men as saying.
Jafar said he waited in front of the DB office on Minto Road since morning, and in the evening, an unidentified man asked him to go to the local police station to lodge a general diary.
When he went to Kadamtoli Police Station, police told him to go to Dhaka Medical College Hospital to search for his son.
Asked whether Kadamtoli police had any information about Tarek, OC Abdus Salam said DB police had told them over the phone that a man from Dania was killed in a gunfight at Mugdah that morning, and the body was at the DMC morgue.
Jafar identified the body of his son around 7:30pm. The body bore marks of bullet injuries in the chest and back.
It also had some marks of torture, hospital sources said.
"My son is not accused in any case or general diary. He worked at the garment factory for two years and we were trying to send him to Malaysia," the father said.
The officers-in-charge of Kadamtoli and Shyampur police stations last night confirmed that Tarek was not accused in any case filed with the stations.
Omar Faroque, officer-in-charge of Mugdah Police Station, said DB officials had informed them of a man having been shot in a gunfight between a DB team and criminals at Green Model Town around 9:00am.
He was declared dead after Mugdah police took him to the hospital around 11:00am.
The OC said he did not have any information about the DB team.
The Daily Star failed to reach any DB official for comments.
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