Ctg lawyer murdered in house

A lawyer has been murdered in his West Bakalia house in Chittagong city.

The caretaker of the house, Mohammad Ilias, noticed the half-naked body of Omar Faruque Bappi, 34, in the morning yesterday and informed police.

He said he knocked on the door after he had found it open. As nobody responded from the inside, he entered the room, said the caretaker.

The hands of the deceased were tied with a rope while the mouth was taped, he said, adding that his penis was cut off.

Jahangir Alam, an assistant commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, quoted the landlord as saying that a woman introducing herself as the wife of Bappi rented the house on KB Aman Ali Road on November 21.

Since then, Bappi and the woman had been living on the ground floor of the three-storey building, said the police official.

“Primarily we assume that he was strangled,” said Jahangir.

Omar Faruque Bappi, 34, son of Ali Ahmad, from Chowmuhani village in Lama upazila of Bandrban, was a lawyer of Chittagong District Judge's Court, said police.

Abu Hanif, general secretary of Chittagong District Bar Association, said as far as he was concerned Bappi had married several years ago.

Thereafter the couple misunderstood and sued each other, he said, adding that recently he heard that they settled the matter.

“I am not sure whether the woman with whom Bappi resided in the house was his wife,” said Abu Hanif.

Santosh Kumar Chakma, an inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation, said it seems that the murder was committed out of “personal rage”.

The man might have been murdered in the dead of night, he added.