AL man's body exhumed

Our Correspondent, Kushtia
Body of an Awami League (AL) activist in Daulatpur upazila in the district was exhumed Sunday after three months of his suspected murder. Police exhumed the body of Ikhtiar Uddin Khan from grave at of Pipulbaria in the upazila in presence of first class magistrate Lutfun Nahar Nazim. According to police, Ikhtiar, 30 of Pipulbaria area went missing on July 28 and his dead body was found at a nearby field on July 30. Bokhtiar Khan, elder brother of Ikhtiar field a murder case with Daulatpur police station accusing four people including a woman of the area. Police arrested the accused. But after five days of the incident, postmortem report showed that Ikhtiar's died from snake bite. After that all the accused got bail from the court showing the postmortem report. Later, officer-in-charge (OC) of Daulatpur police station appealed to court on August 12 praying for fresh probe into the incident. The court granted the prayer and ordered to exhume the body.