Body of missing Rangpur spl PP found following wife’s statement

Body of missing Rangpur spl PP found following wife’s statement

Rangpur, Apr 4 (Just News): The body of Rangpur special public prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik was found from the district town early today following the statement of his wife Dipa Bhowmik who was picked up by the law enforcers earlier in the night.

Rapid Action Battalion recovered the body from Tajhat Mollapara in the town around 2:30am, five days after Rathish Chandra, 55, went missing, our Dinajpur correspondent reports quoting Arman Rabbi, commanding officer of Rab-13.

Around 11:30pm yesterday, a team of Rab-13 picked up Dipa Bhowmik to interrogate her, the official said.

Based on her statement, the elite force members dug up Rathish’s body from the ground of an under-construction building, around 500 metres away from his residence.

Yesterday, police launched a search after they found a blood-stained shirt at the back of Rathish’s residence at Tajhat Babupara, but they found nothing there.

Meanwhile, police arrested Dipa Bhowmik’s colleague Kamrul Islam and his brother Motiur Rahman yesterday for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of the PP, Superintendent of Rangpur police Mizanur Rahman.

A lawyer by profession, Rathish was also involved in other activities. He was the general secretary of Sammilito Sangskritik Jote of Rangpur district unit, vice president of Rangpur District Lawyers' Association, law affairs secretary of district Awami League (AL), and a trustee of Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Oikya Parishad in the district.

Rathish was the PP of the cases filed over the murder of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio and Khadem Rahmat Ali on October 3 and November 10 in 2015 respectively.

The special judge court of Rangpur sentenced five members of militant Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death in Japanese national Hoshi Kunio murder case on February 28 last year. The same court convicted seven JMB militants to death for killing Khadem Rahmat Ali on March 18 this year. Besides, he was a witness in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azaharul Islam, who was sentenced to death, by the ICT court.

Soon after he went missing, different organisations waged demonstration demanding the rescue of the missing lawyer.

(Justnews/ys/1340hr)