Police have recovered the body of a businessman, Rafiqul Islam Rubel Talukder, 50, from in front of the door of his own house in Ghoraghat, Dinajpur. There was an injury to his left eye and signs of a noose on his neck, and police believe he may have been strangled.
The body was recovered at around 12 midnight on Saturday (14 November) outside his house in the Kashigari (Kachari) area of Birahimpur cluster village in the upazila.
Rubel was the son of the late Saifuddin Talukder of the area.
According to his family, Rubel and his wife Rubi divorced about six months ago, after which Rubi moved with their two daughters to her father’s home in Phulbari upazila. Rubel had returned home about a year and a half ago after nine years in Malaysia. Since the divorce he had lived alone in his house, but took his meals regularly at the home of his elder brother, Saidul Islam. He ran a business and also tended a grape orchard at his home.
Saidul Islam said that when Rubel did not come for his evening meal, he phoned him several times. When he could not reach him, he went to Rubel’s house to look for him and found the door open. He searched the surroundings and the grape orchard without finding him, and on his way back he saw Rubel’s body lying in front of another door of the house. Relatives and neighbours came running at his cries, and the police were then called.
Mahmud Hasan, officer in charge of Ghoraghat police station, said the body had been sent to the morgue of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem examination. The actual cause of death will be known once the post-mortem report is received.
He added that the family has not yet filed a case, but the matter is being investigated seriously, and police have begun work to establish what happened and to identify those involved.
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