Youth’s body cut into nine pieces recovered; ex-BCL leader, four others arrested

Police recovered the dismembered body of a youth, who went missing Wednesday morning, from a char of the Padma River in Sadar upazila of Kushtia early Saturday.

Police said they arrested five people, including a former leader of Chhatra League, who is the mastermind of the killing.

The deceased has been identified as Milon Hossain, 24, son of Mawla Box of Purbo Bahirmadi village under Daulatpur upazila of the district. He used to live with his family in the E-block of the Housing Society in the district headquarters.

Palash Kanti Nath, additional superintendent (crime and operations) of district police, revealed this information on Saturday morning.

He said one of the arrestees gave a call to the victim to come out of the house on Wednesday morning.

Later, he was kept captive inside a house in the housing area for ransom and subsequently killed there at night after failing to provide the ransom, he said.

On Thursday morning, victim’s wife Mumo Khatun filed a general diary (GD) about the missing with the Sadar police station.

Meanwhile, the accused cut the body into nine pieces to bury those in the char, he said, adding that as per the plan, the pieces were buried in six places in the char of the river near Kantinagar Boaldah area under Hatash union of the upazila.

During the investigation, police first arrested one of the friends of the victim and later came to know that the district unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s expelled Vice President SK Sajeeb led the killing, the police officer said.

Later, on Friday afternoon, four accused including mastermind Sajeeb were arrested and they confessed to their involvement in the killing, he said.

In the preliminary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they were led by the expelled BCL leader, and murdered Milon for money, the police officer said.

Earlier, Sajeeb was expelled from the BCL’s district committee for vandalising Kushtia 250-bed General Hospital and harassing interns physically. Later, he was arrested in a vandalism case.

He walked out of jail in the case a few days ago.

Sajeeb is accused in several cases, including extortion.