Police are yet to make any progress in the murder case of Obaidul Haque in a midnight shooting even after a week into the incident that took place barely a few yards from Dhaka’s Kalabagan Police Station.
Published : 03 Jul 2015, 09:48 PM
However, they suspect it was a ‘planned murder’.
The Detective Branch has joined the investigations.
Haque was a manager of Sanowara Group’s Drinks and Beverage Industries that produces Kwality Ice Cream. It is owned by his uncle, Awami League leader and former Chittagong MP Nurul Islam.
The victim lived in Islam’s house in Kalabagan’s Circular Road and was returning home from the office at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall.
Haque was on a rickshaw when he was shot in the head on June 26. The rickshaw-puller took him to the police station.
He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he died around 2:30am.
Kalabagan police OC Mohammad Iqbal told bdnews24.com on Thursday, “We have not found anything in the investigations yet. But we are suspecting it was a planned murder.
“He might have been shot while trying to stop getting mugged. We are also looking into that angle.”
“The police station’s CCTV camera footage shows three persons were riding away on a motorcycle with Haque’s bag. But, their face was not clear in the footage as it was raining at the time,” he added.
Iqbal said they would watch footage further and show it to relatives of Haque, who came to Dhaka on Thursday, to see if they can identify any of the three.
When asked whether Haque had any enmity with anyone in his workplace, family or otherwise, the policeman said, “We do not know about that. A number of his family members, too, said they had no such information.”
Sanowara Group Accountant Arup Ratan Roy, who lives on the second floor of the house in Kalabagan, told bdnews24.com that detectives went to Haque’s home on Thursdayand spoke to his relatives and wife Sonia Haque.
“If it was only related to mugging, the assailants would have shot him in the leg or in some other place. I believe he was shot in the head as per a pre-planned move,” Roy said.
Haque was the youngest of the four brothers and five sisters. He married only five months ago. His wife is a lawyer.
His cousin Yasir Md Adnan filed a case with Kalabagan police over the killing.