Police in Jashore arrested a suspect on Wednesday, November 11, after 70-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Sheikh Abu Taleb was allegedly hacked to death with a sickle outside a mosque in Sadar upazila over a long-running land dispute.
The attack occurred around 1:20 p.m. in front of Munshefpur Paschimpara Baro Mosque. Victim Abu Taleb, son of the late Sheikh Motaleb of Munshefpur village, was a former president and current member of Ward 4 BNP in Kachua union.
Locals said Shafiar Sheikh, son of the late Abdul Aziz Sheikh and a distant relative, allegedly attacked Abu Taleb with a sharp sickle before fleeing; relatives rushed Taleb to Jashore 250-bed General Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. Neighbors attributed the violence to a roughly 15-year feud after Taleb’s family purchased land adjacent to Shafiar’s plot that Shafiar had also wanted to buy.
Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Kabir Hossain said police inspected the scene and mounted an operation that detained Shafiar Sheikh shortly afterward, adding that an investigation and formal case filing are underway while the body rests at the hospital morgue.
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