Journalist Bibhuranjan Sarkar’s body recovered from Meghna River

❐ Staff correspondent

Police have recovered the body of missing senior journalist and columnist Bibhuranjan Sarkar from the Meghna River in Gazaria, Munshiganj. Upon receiving the news, his family members rushed to the spot.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Ramna Division Deputy Police Commissioner Md. Masud Alam confirmed the matter to the media at 5:44 pm on Friday.

He said a body was found in the Meghna River.

In this regard, Ramna Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Golam Faruk said that there has been a significant change in the appearance of the recovered body. It could not be completely confirmed by looking at the footage. However, family members will go to Munshiganj to identify the body.

Bibhuranjan’s younger brother Chiranjan Sarkar said, “We are on our way to the scene. The photo that the police showed is of my grandfather. Now there are some formalities, so we are going.”

On the morning of August 21, Bibhuranjan Sarkar e-mailed an article to bdnews24.com. In the footnote of the article, he mentioned, “You can publish this as the last article of your life.”

The family said that he left home at around 10 am that day, saying he was going to the office, but did not return. A general diary (GD) was filed with the police station on Thursday night, alleging that he was missing.

Bibhuranjan Sarkar started journalism while he was a student. He was also associated with leftist politics. While in Panchagarh, he worked as a correspondent for the Daily Azad. Later, he came to Dhaka and worked as a journalist for the Weekly Ekta, the Daily Rupali and edited the weekly ‘Chalatipatra’.

He has also served as the executive editor of the ‘Mridubhasan’ weekly and the editor of ‘Dainik Matribhumi’. His regular columns have been published in almost all dailies and online media of the country.

He became known for writing under the pseudonym ‘Tarikh Ibrahim’ while working as an assistant editor at the weekly Jaya Zayedin in the 1980s. He was last working as a senior assistant editor at the daily Ajker.

While studying at Dhaka University, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Students’ Union. Later, he became involved in the politics of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB).