British citizen of Bangladesh origin found dead in rehab
A Bangladesh-born UK citizen on Sunday was found dead in front of a drug rehabilitation centre in Moulvibazar's Sadar upazila where the victim was receiving treatment for the last couple of days.
Police recovered the body, with several injury marks on it, of Jalal Uddin, 45, from inside an ambulance parked in front of Uddipon Drug Healing Center in the upazila around 9:00pm.
The family members have been claiming it to be a murder.
According to relatives, Jalal went to his uncle's place in the UK during his childhood and stayed there ever since 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 since last October, said his cousin Shahinur Abedin.
The family members admitted him to the rehabilitation centre on December 29 as his condition deteriorated, he added.
Victim's mother Ruksana Akhter said she had received a phone call from the rehab authorities around 7:00pm on Sunday and was told that they admitted her son to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital after he fell seriously ill.
“Finding no one named Jalal admitted to the hospital, we went directly to the rehab centre and found nobody in 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, she said.
Victim's uncle Emadul Haque said, “It was a murder and there is no doubt as the body had numerous injury marks on it.”
We are planning to file a case against the rehab centre, he added.
Mohammad Shahjalal, superintended of police in Moulvibazar said, policemen recovered the body and sent it to Moulvibazar 250-bed District Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Polash Kumar Roy, residential medical officer of the hospital said, “I found a large number of injury marks on the body.
This correspondent went to visit the centre yesterday noon and found nobody.
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