Police yet to make headway

Police are yet to make any headway in the murder of former Power Development Board chairman Khizir Khan.

On October 5, some 10 unidentified people slit the throat of Muhammad Khizir Khan, 65, also a freedom fighter of Kushtia, after tying up his family members in his Madhya Badda residence in the capital. Khizir used to run a Khankah Sharif on the first floor of the house, said his relatives.

Abdul Jalil, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station, said they are checking every angle including disputes related to religious belief and land, and personal enmity.

Yesterday, Kushtia District Association formed a human chain before the Jatiya Press Club in the capital demanding immediate arrest of the killers.

The murder patterns of Khizir and Sheikh Nurul Islam Faruqi, leader of Islamic Front Bangladesh who was slain in August 2014, resembles each other, said one demonstrator.