Police say brick-sand trade, not election, behind BCL man’s murder in Ctg

Ashikur Rahman Rohit, an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Chattogram, was stabbed to death over the brick-sand trade and not elections, said police.

"The dispute over Chattogram City Corporation election was not behind the murder of Rohit. The killing happened over the area-based club and to control the brick-sand trade," said SM Mehedi Hasan, deputy commissioner (south) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), in a press briefing at his office today.

Police made the findings during the primary interrogation of two arrestees and further investigation, our Chattaogram correspondent reports, quoting the deputy police commissioner. 

"Arrestee Saiful Islam Babu (21) and fugitive Sahabuddin Sabu (26) stabbed Rohit while the planner behind the attack was another arrestee Mohiuddin (35)," said the police official.   

Babu was arrested from Dhaka's Mirpur while Mohiuddin from Madertek New Madina Residential Area in the capital's Mugda on Sunday, he said.

Rohit disclosed the three names while he was undergoing treatment at a hospital before he died, said SM Mehedi.

The trio was involved in the local brick-sand trade and were also connected with the BCL activities, a police official said seeking anonymity.  

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