Dhaka, June 14 (Just News): A key witness against convicted war criminals Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzman Khan and son of martyred intellectual Selina Parvin, Shuman Zahid was found dead on rail track at Khilgaon Bagicha in Dhaka on Thursday morning.
The skull was severed from his body but there was no mark on injuries on his body, witnesses said
Government Railway Police’s Dhaka officer-in-charge Yeasin Faroque Mozumder said an unidentified man was killed being hit by a train at Khilgaon Bagicha in the morning but he could say the name of the train. He said they were informed by Shahjahanpur police of death of a person at Khilgaon Bagicha had recovered the body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy.
Shuman Zahid was working at Farmers Bank and a resent of Uttar Shahjahanpur.
Kazi Md Bakhtiar, brother-in-law of Shuman, told reporters that they believe that people who threatened with life earlier for being the witness in a war crimes case, might have killed him.
He ruled out chances of committing suicide by Shuman.
Touhid Reza Noor, another witness of the war crimes case and son martyred intellectual Sirajuddin Hossain, expressed same view to media.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on November 3, 2013 handed down death penalty to Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan for carrying out “unheard of extermination committed in execution of designed murderous scheme”
The court found them guilty on all 11 charges relating to the killing of 18 intellectuals just before of the country's independence in 1971.
Mueen and Ashraf were tried in absentia, as the tribunal's efforts to bring them back to face trial had failed. Mueen is now in the UK and Ashraf in the US.
