Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) recovered a buried body of abducted person Tossarraf Hossain Popi, 42, from Shyampur Sakoapara village under Badarganj upazila of Rangpur district on Sunday morning, reports BSS.
The RpMP sources said businessman Tossarraf, a resident of Enayetganj Lane in Hazaribag of Dhaka city, was abducted nine days ago on January 11 from Rangpur Central Bus Terminal area in the city.
Victim’s younger sister Sajia Afrin Dolly filed a case in this connection with Kotwali Thana of RpMP accusing six persons with Rabiul Hossain, a serving Police Constable at Rangpur Police Training Centre, as the prime accused, on January 16 last.
Police arrested Constable Rabiul Hossain, his brother-in-law Saiful Islam and the victim’s servant Bipul Kumar Roy, all are hailing from different villages in Rangpur, on January 17.
Tossarraf and Rabiul were known to each-other and they had conflicts over money-related affairs.
“We produced the arrested persons with a remand prayer before a Rangpur court on January 18 when the court granted five-day police remand,” Investigation Officer (IO) of the case and Additional Deputy Police Commissioner of RpMP Shahidullah Kowsar said.
During interrogation, the arrested persons admitted their involvement in abduction of Tossarraf and killing him in a planned way masterminded by Constable Rabiul following previous enmity over money-related conflicts.
Rabiul admitted that he tactfully abducted Tossarraf after his arrival at Rangpur from Dhaka on January 11 at about 6 am and took him to the house of his sister in Shyampur Sakoapara village by a motorcycle.
Later, Tossarraf became unconscious after taking tea given him with sedative tablets at that house when the arrested persons killed him there.
as per a preplanned plot in the morning and buried the body in a nearby sugarcane field at late night.
“As per confessions of the arrested persons, we recovered the buried body of Tossarraf from the crop field today,” the IO said, adding that the body was sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy in the afternoon.
Talking to BSS, Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Abdul Alim Mahmud said investigation process was continuing and efforts were on to arrest the other culprits involved in the murder for producing them before the court to ensure justice.
