Youth shot dead in capital

Criminals on a car shot dead a youth in the capital's Green Road early yesterday.
The dead, Saddin Hossain Sunny, 26, son of Kazi Shawkat Hossain, was an engineer of a textile factory at Savar.
Quoting witnesses, Sunny's maternal uncle Jahangir Nazim told The Daily Star that the criminals halted Sunny's motor bike by keeping their car before it near Lab Aid Hospital in Dhanmondi and shot him and fled away around 12:45am. He was declared dead at the hospital.
“Sunny left my house [at about 12:35am] after staying five minutes and I heard the news of the incident around 1:00am,” said Nazim.

The victim's uncle filed a murder case accusing one Dr Shahidul Alam Khan.
Alam allegedly tried to extort money from Nizam a year ago with issuing various threats several times. Nizam later filed a case against him, said Mohammad Iqbal, officer-in-charge of Kalabagan Police Station.  
“At the early hours of yesterday before Sunny's arrival, Alam along with a few others went to Nazim's house and forced him to withdraw the case,” said the OC quoting Nazim.
Police suspect that Sunny was killed by the persons who followed him from behind, said the OC.