ASI’s hanging body recovered from Bogra Police Lines

BD Digest correspondent
The hanging body of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Md. Ariful Islam (38), working in the radio section of the district police, has been recovered from inside the Bogra Police Lines. Police recovered his body from an abandoned room inside the Police Lines on Friday (May 22) morning.

The deceased, Ariful Islam, is the son of Md. Ashraf of Padmabil Gharia area of ​​Naldanga upazila of Natore. He is survived by his wife and two children.

According to police and local sources, ASI Ariful lived with other colleagues on the second floor of the Betar branch building. He was seen in a normal condition on Thursday night. However, his colleagues started searching for him after not seeing him for a long time on Friday morning. At one point, they became suspicious when they saw the door of a workshop room next to the Betar building blocked from the inside. Later, they found Ariful hanging from a ceiling fan through a gap in the window.

The initial police estimate is that he may have committed suicide by hanging himself anytime between 1:30 am on Thursday and 8 am on Friday.

Upon receiving the news, Bogra Superintendent of Police Mirza Sayem Mahmud and senior officials of the district police visited the scene yesterday morning. Later, after completing the legal process, the body was taken down from the ceiling.

Confirming the incident, Additional Police SP (Media Spokesperson) of Bogra District Police Md. Atowar Rahman said, “Upon receiving the news, the body of ASI Ariful was recovered from the scene. The body has been sent to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College (SZMEC) Hospital morgue in Bogra for autopsy. The police have already started an investigation to find out whether it was suicide or there was some other family or psychological reason behind it.”