Police yet to unearth clue to murder of ex-army man

Police are yet to unearth clue to the murder of an ex-army man in Dumki upazila of the district.

Mohammad Jamal Hossain Sikder, 45, son of late Abul Hossain Sikder of Kartikpasha village in the upazila, was found murdered at the village on April 20.

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Masud Sikder, brother of the victim, filed a murder case with Dumki Police Station, accusing an unidentified gang the same day, said Habibur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the police station.

Police interrogated eight people, including victim's wife Ferdousy Akhter, a schoolteacher, and their daughter Nusrat Jahan alias Maria, but they could not identify the killers and unearth the motive behind the killing.

According to the case statement, Jamal went out of his house around 9:00pm on April 19 and did not return. Next morning, locals spotted his body lying in a farmland and informed the police. 

Police recovered the body and sent it to Patuakhali General Hospital morgue for autopsy. Quoting victim's family members, police said there had been a long-standing rivalry between Jamal and his neighbours over the ownership of a disputed land.