Fight over loot sharing behind murder
The two youths, whose decomposed bodies were recovered from a field in Dhaka's Uttara in October, were killed over a feud centring on sharing looted money, said police.
“A gang of inter-district robbers killed two of their members following a conflict over distribution of looted money,” Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch of police, told The Daily Star yesterday.
Detectives claimed to have unearthed the information after arresting two members -- Monir Hossain, 27, and Md Farid, 25 -- of the gang, who allegedly took part in the killing. A team of DB (north) arrested the duo from Dhaka's Adabar and Shanir Akhra areas on Friday night, he said.
On October 20, Turag police recovered decomposed bodies of two youths from the field at Uttara's sector-16.
Relatives of the deceased identified the bodies as Kamal Hossain, 24, and Imon Sheikh, 25, at Suhrawardy Medical College morgue, a day after the incident.
Imon's wife said her husband was not involved with any robbery gang. “Imon was a transport worker. His cellphone was found switched off, a week before his body was recovered.”
Police, however, claimed Kamal was wanted in two cases filed with Sadarpur and Nagarkanda police stations in Faridpur while Imon was wanted in a case filed with Nagarkanda station.
Sumon Kanti Chowdhury, assistant commissioner of DB police, said both the deceased and arrestees are members of same group. They used to loot valuables from people after stopping vehicles on highways in Dhaka, Faridpur and nearby districts.
They used to stop vehicles by keeping rocks on speed breakers and loot valuables from people by using machetes and kitchen knives, he said. In primary interrogation, the arrestees mentioned that a conflict arose after Imon and Kamal started taking majority of the valuables, he said.
So, Monir and Farid along with others devised a plan to kill them. “They called Imon and Kamal to meet them at the field in Uttara around 9:00pm on October 14 and killed them with iron rods and knives,” he said.
After the incident, Monir and Farid went into hiding. They finally got arrested on Friday night. “We are conducting drives to arrest the other gang members,” he added.
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