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Police have recovered the body of a man named Md Salek Khan Babu, 35, in the capital’s Hazaribagh. The body was recovered yesterday, Thursday, afternoon from the tin shed over the garage in front of a 10-storey building in the Zafrabad area of West Dhanmondi.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Saiful Islam of Hazaribagh Police Station recovered the body. After completion of legal procedures, the body was sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy this morning, Friday.
The police inquest report says there are injury marks on different parts of Salek Khan’s body. Police learnt in the preliminary investigation that he had an altercation and scuffle with caretaker Badhon Dev in front of the gate of that building on Thursday afternoon. Later, Salek phoned and called several people there, and they hit the guard on the head with an iron angle and left him with bleeding injuries, police said. Hearing the guard’s screams, the people who had come with Salek fled the scene.
After that, another guard, Milton, came there and went to the roof of the building, taking three more people with him. They came down a while later. Later, the body of Salek Khan Babu was recovered from the tin shed over the building’s garage.
The deceased, Salek Khan Babu, ran a dish cable business. His father’s name is Idris Khan.
Over the incident, the victim’s sister Mofaiya Khan Eva alleged that her brother was murdered and was beaten and thrown off the building.
SI Saiful Islam of Hazaribagh Police Station said details about the incident will be known after the autopsy report and the investigation; the matter is being investigated.
