Punishment to Mizan's killers demanded

Staff Correspondent
Local people of the city's Kafrul area including the family members of slain businessman Mizanur Rahman held a protest rally at Muktangan yesterday demanding proper investigation and punishment to the killers.

Addressing the rally, Mizan's elder brother Dewan Ruhul Amin said the father and a brother of Baby, wife of Mizan, took a loan of Tk 12 lakh from the deceased.

He suspected them for their involvement in the killing.

Ruhul Amin said Baby's father and two brothers, who are influential at Kafrul area, are now threatening to kill them.

The rally was also addressed by Mizan's five brothers, four sisters and some other relatives from the victim's village home at Matlab in Chandpur district.

Earlier, a few hundred locals of Kafrul and the family members of Mizan brought out a procession demanding punishment to the killers.

Sources said Mizan was strangled to death inside the bedroom of his house and then his body was cut into three pieces.

Police recovered the mutilated body packed in a sack from Shewrapara in Kafrul in the early hours of Saturday.

Baby and his paramour Mamun have admitted to police that they hired two men to kill Mizan as a sequel to family dispute over her character, police added.

Ruhul Amin identified his brother's body at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.