'Unable to afford food': freelancer in Rajshahi wrote on Facebook before death
A freelancer's body was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his Rajshahi home today around 5:00am.
The deceased, Md Anwarul Islam Tutul (35), was the chairman of Sonar Bangla Dream IT, a cost per action marketing and outsourcing company, said Sub-Inspector Md Golam Mostofa of Boalia Police Station.
Police found Tutul's body in his rented house at Sheikhpara area of Rajshahi city. Tutul may have hanged himself from the ceiling fan in his work room while his family members were asleep, according to family. Police recovered his body at 11:30am after being called by his family, the SI said.
Earlier last night, Tutul posted on Facebook that he gave up as he was "unable to afford food for his family over the last three months".
In the long note, he also described how he was surviving on loans and wrote, "I don't want to live anymore and increase my loans."
Tutul referred to a freelancing training institute in Dhaka and claimed that the owner of that institute has swindled Tk 17 lakh from him and a total of Tk 1,500 crore from some 4,500 trainees, reports our staff correspondent in Rajshahi.
Police has started investigating the death and the incident of swindling, Nibaran Chandra Burman, officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station, said.
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