4 held on charge of killing 2 at Jessore filling station

Police on Monday arrested four people on charge of killing two people at a filling station at Charabhita Bazar in Bagharpara upazila of Jessore district.

The arrestees are employee of Abdul Bari Filling Station Sirajul Islam, a resident of Jessore Sadar upazila and his accomplices Iqbal of the upazila, Nayan of Bagharpara upazila and Nasir of Charabhita.     

Obaidur Rahman, 40, manager of the filling station, and one Apu Khan, 25, a student of Jessore MM College, were found murdered at the filling station on Monday morning.

Sirajul went into hiding soon after the incident, Assistant Superintendent of Police Billal Hossain said, adding that a case was filed in connection with the incident.

According to Sirajul's confessional statement, he had a feud with manager of the filling station Obaidur over sharing of money earned from selling oil.

Sirajul said he used to steal oil everyday. At the end of the day the manager took 80 percent of the money that came from sale of the stolen oil. Sirajul was agitated as he got only 20 percent.

Sirajul told police that Iqbal, Nayan and Nasir used to take drugs inside the filling station and manager Obaidur also objected to it, the ASP said.

Over the feud, Sirajul, Iqbal, Nasir and Nayan together killed Obaidur around 1:00pm on June 5. As college boy Apu, who was sleeping beside Obaidul, awoke, they also killed him.