Magura businessman abducted, Ctg trader hacked to death
Star Report
An unidentified armed gang abducted a leading businessman from his home in Magura town on Tuesday night in what appeared to be a ransom-motivated incident and unidentified criminals hacked to death a fish trader on the bank of Karnaphuli river in Chittagong the same day.Police and witnesses said the gang stormed the house of wholesale grocer Sanatan Paul at Natun Bazaar in the southwestern town at about 11:00pm and injured his employee with gunshots as he tried to resist the abduction of the 45-year-old, our Magura correspondent reports. Biswajit Saha, 26, who worked for Sanatan as a staff, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with forehead wounds for better treatment. Police seized a microbus from Abalpur village in Jhenidah, a neighbouring district, and found three bullets in the vehicle the abductors are believed to use in the kidnap. Police could not rescue the victim nor arrest any suspect until 4:35pm yesterday. Officer-in-Charge of Magura Sadar Police Station Mirza Sarafat Ali described the incident as ransom-intended. PRIME SUSPECT FOR MURDER HELD In the other incident, Karnaphuli police arrested 50-year-old fish trader Abdur Rahim's business partner Abdul Momin, 25, a poultry trader, from his house in the same area at 4:00am yesterday on charge of killing Rahim. They retrieved Rahim's body from a bush at Maizzertek in Char Lakhya at around 10:00pm and sent it to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for autopsy, our Chittagong correspondent say quoting sources. Rahim's family hinted that Momin might have murdered him for Tk 3 lakh he borrowed from Rahim, also former senior vice-president of local Awami League, six months ago. Momin called the fish trader out of his Ichhanagar Bazaar house at around 7:30pm asking him victim to collect the money, they alleged. Earlier, the poultry trader returned Rahim only Tk 40,000 and promised to pay back the rest by March 26, sources said. "Momin gave my uncle two cheques amounting to Tk 2.5 lakh on the deadline, but asked him to take the entire amount in cash from him Tuesday night instead of depositing the cheques in bank," the victim's nephew, Mohammad Hafiz, told reporters at the CMCH yesterday noon. Receiving the phone call, Rahim, father of four sons and three daughters, went out alone on his motorbike, but did not return, he added. His son Abdullah Al Mamun lodged a case with Karnaphuli Police Station the same night making Momin the prime suspect.
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