Jamaat leader’s body with throat slit recovered from paddy field

❐ Local correspondent

Police have recovered the beheaded body of a leader of the war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami party from a paddy field in Gobindaganj Upazila of Gaibandha.

Police recovered his body from a paddy field in Shital village of Nakai union of the upazila today, Sunday, August 17.

The deceased, Nazrul Islam (32), was a resident of Kanipara village. He was the Nakai Union Ward President of the Jamaat-e-Islami organization Sramik Kalyan Federation. He had a mobile banking business in the market. Locals said he was involved in the Middle Eastern-financed hundi business.

It is learned that on Saturday night, on his way home after closing his shop, Nazrul reached the land of local Mannan Mandal, when miscreants who had been waiting for him caught him and slit his throat.

It is worth noting that a few hackers from Bikash-Nagad were arrested in a joint operation recently. Law enforcement sources got their information from Nazrul’s shop transactions. Locals believe that the hackers may have killed him to silence him.

However, one party claims that Nazrul himself is a member of the Hundi gang. He has amassed a huge fortune through the Hundi business over the past few years. He may have been killed over a dispute over this Hundi transaction.

Nazrul’s relatives said the murder was the result of a dispute over shoplifting and mobile banking transactions.

Confirming the murder, Gobindaganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Bulbul Islam said the body of the deceased has been recovered and sent to the hospital morgue. Police are working to uncover the cause of the murder and arrest those involved.