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The body of an employee of a rice wholesale depot was recovered from his workplace in Jashore Sadar upazila early Monday.
The deceased was identified as Bayezid Hasan (28), of Banargati village in Khulna city. He was an employee of the rice depot owned by Jashore city unit BNP’s president Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury Malluk Chand, as per UNB reports.
Kotwali police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdur Razzaque said Bayezid allegedly stole Tk 0.5 million from the rice depot few days back.
He might have been beaten and strangled to death over the issue, he said.
Being informed, a police team rushed to the spot and recovered the body at around 3 am, the OC said, adding that the body was sent to Jashore Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The night guard of the wholesale depot was arrested in this connection.
A case will be filed in this connection, he added.