Autopsy reveals several bruises on head
DMC forensic chief terms death of sub-registrar in train accident 'mysterious'
Sub-registrar Mahbub Alam did not die in train accident; he was murdered, claimed his family members.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Medical College Forensic Department chief Sohel Mahmud termed the death “mysterious”, after performing autopsy on the body on Saturday as several injury marks were found on Mahbub's head.
“Viscera samples from the body had been collected for test,” he said, adding that after getting the report, reason behind the death would be known completely.
The sub-registrar of Demra Land Record Office was found dead near Airport Rail Station area on Friday. Police said Mahbub was hit by the Panchagarh-Dhaka Ekota Express around 9:40am.
Meanwhile, Abu Zafar, younger brother of the deceased, said, “We wanted to file a murder case with Dhaka Railway Police Station, but police told us to file an unnatural death case.”
“According to police, if the autopsy or investigation reports find that it was murder, it will be turned to a murder case atomically,” Zafar added.
This correspondent visited Mahbub's house at West Shewrapara in Mirpur on Saturday afternoon and spoke to his relatives.
They said Mahbub was transferred to Demra office last month. He worked at Kaliakair office in Gazipur for two years. Mahbub got into some kind of trouble regarding registration of a piece of land there, they claimed. He might have been killed for that, they alleged.
Asked, his brother Zafar said, “I don't know anything about it. All I know that he was performing his duty honestly.”
He said around 8:30pm on Thursday, Mahbub's driver dropped him off near Airport Rail Station area. Contacted around 10pm, Mahbub said he would be home soon. Since then, his phone was switched off, Zafar said, adding that the family searched for him in the area all night.
Zafar claimed that his brother was killed in a “planned way”. “We found around six injury marks on Mahbub's head. If he had died being hit by a train, there should be one or two injury marks,” he added.
Contacted, case's investigation officer Nazrul Islam, sub-inspector of Airport Railway police outpost, said, “The investigation is ongoing. Police have already visited Mahbub's residence and spoke to his family members and others.”