Unidentified miscreants shot dead a retired police official in Dhaka’s West Rampura locality on Thursday.
Published : 29 Aug 2013, 11:53 AM
DMP Motijheel zone Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Mehedi Hasan said several miscreants shot Fazlul Karim, 60, after entering his residence on the second floor of a five-story building at Wapda Road around 10am.
Karim owned the building and lived with his family there.
His car driver and other tenants of the building rushed him to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead, police outpost Inspector Md Mozammel Hoque told bdnews24.com.
Karim’s daughter Farjna Karim Badhon alleged that her father might be killed over a land dispute.
ADC Mehedi Hasan said Karim had retired six years ago as an Additional Superintendent of police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Touhid Kashem Khan Prince, Karim’s brother-in-law, told reporters at hospital that Swapna Karim, the deceased’s wife, saw a youth with fire arms in the stairs when she was leaving to visit her daughter at Gulshan.
Swapna panicked and asked him who he was looking for. Then the youth forced her to get inside the house and called two more youths up on the second floor.
Prince said they locked Swapna in a room and fled after shooting Karim.
The household worker, a minor boy, was in the house at the time. The boy said he heard three gunshots, Prince added.
Meanwhile, Karim’s daughter Badhon told reporters her father was going through a dispute with his brother’s family over possession of a house at their ancestral home at Ramkrishnadi village at Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan Upazila.
Asked about the motives behind her father’s killing, Badhon said, “Ask them. Then you will know the reason".
Top police officials rushed to see him at DMCH as the news of the attack on Karim spread.
Special Superintendent of CID Abdul Kahar Akhand told bdnews24.com that Fazlul Karim investigated several sensational cases in the 1980s.