NSU teacher killed by muggers

A teacher of North South University (NSU) was strangled to death allegedly by muggers at Gulshan in the capital on Tuesday night.
Besides, police recovered the body of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver from the Mohakhali flyover the same night, believed to be killed also by muggers.
Dewan Rahat Karim Mukul, 36, a lecturer of School of Business of NSU, was found unconscious near the Army Stadium at around 8:45pm by police and was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead at 10:00pm.
Morgue sources said that they found balm and powdered chilli in the victim's eyes and face, which indicates that his assailants might have been members of 'malam party,' the kind of muggers' gang which forcibly puts toxic ointment into their target's eyes and snatches their belongings.
Police inquest report mentioned that Rahat was strangled to death. There were also injuries to his eyes, head, neck and ears.
Family of the deceased said that Rahat went out of his Naeem Road house at Dhanmondi at around 8:00am for his university.
Quoting the NSU officials, the family said he took a class after attending an iftar party at the university and then started for home at about 8:20pm.
When they called to his mobile phone at around 9:00pm, they found it switched off. Meantime, they called Rahat's in-laws at Nakhalpara in Tejgaon.
When Rahat's in-laws went to Gulshan Police Station, the police informed them that they had rescued an unconscious man from near the Army Stadium and took him to DMCH, Rahat's family said quoting the in-laws.
The criminals took mobile phone and money from Rahat.
Khan Mohammad Mainul Zakir, sub-inspector of Gulshan Police Station, said that while patrolling the surrounding areas of Army Stadium they found Rahat after being informed through wireless.
Gulshan police said they suspect that the 'malam party' muggers might have dropped him there after strangling him in some other place.
None could be arrested and filing of a case was under process as of 7:00pm yesterday.
Rahat was buried at the family graveyard of his in-laws at Nakhalpara yesterday.
His family said that Rahat did not have enmity with anyone and he used to return home by CNG-run three-wheelers by 8:00pm.
Rahat did his honours and masters in Accounting from Dhaka University and later completed his MBA from Japan, they said adding he joined NSU in 2006.
He was supposed leave for Australia to do PhD in February next year and had completed all the necessary work in this regard.
Rahat was also a part time teacher of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Institute at Uttara, his family added.
The NSU authorities expressed profound shock at the killing of Rahat. All the teachers, students, officials and employees of the university conveyed their deep sympathy to the members of the bereaved family.
They also demanded immediate arrest of the killers and their exemplary punishment.
Meanwhile, unidentified criminals killed a driver of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and took his CNG leaving the body on the Mohakhali flyover on Tuesday night.
The deceased was identified as Hasmat Ali Mollah, 40, a resident of Muktijodhha complex on Chiriyakhana road in Mirpur.
Gulshan police recovered the body from the flyover at around 9:00pm and took it to DMCH where the attending doctors declared him dead.
Babu Mollah, son of Hasmat, said his father went out on Tuesday morning and remained missing since then.
He identified his father's body at DMCH yesterday. He also filed a murder case with Gulshan Police Station.