Businessman murdered in Tejgaon

Unidentified miscreants killed a businessman at his flat in Shanti Niketon residential area of Tejgaon in the capital on Wednesday.

The victim Shah Tobarak Hossain, 70, originally from Karimganj, Kishoreganj, owned a multi-storeyed market in Mohakhali, Dhaka, according to police.

Tobarak, a follower of Chattogram based Shafi Maizbhandari, could have been killed for his ideological beliefs or business conflicts, said Biplob Bijoy Talukdar, deputy commissioner of Tejgaon division police.

Police detained security guards Ruhul Amin and Shah Alam along with Tobarak's adopted son Saiful Islam in connection with the murder.

According to the police, the elderly businessman used to stay at his flat with adopted son Saiful while his wife and children live in another house.

Hasan, a disciple of Tobarak who used to stay at the garage of the building, went missing since the incident.

A number of four-five miscreants reached Tobarak's flat unhindered as they found the main gate of the building open around 5:30am, according to a security guard.

As the miscreants rang the doorbell, Saiful opened the door and they tied him up. Then they stabbed Tobarak several times in the head, he added.

He said, two of the miscreants were masked.

According to Tejgaoon police, Hasan called them around 8:00am and said miscreants had killed Tobarak and were trying to pick him up.

Rushing to the spot, police found Tobarok unconscious and the businessman was taken to a hospital in Mohakhali. Later, he was taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital where the physicians declared him dead.

Humayun Kabir, a driver of the Shanti Niketon building who lives in a room adjacent to the garage, told Prothom Alo that Saiful came to the ground floor around 7:00am, and told him that miscreants had killed Tobarak and took away money wreaking their almirah.

"Hasan fled the scene before the police had arrived there," said additional deputy commissioner of Tejgaon division of police, Wahidul Islam, adding, "He could be involved in the murder."

The flat's furniture was found vandalised on Wednesday.

Tobarak's wife Parvin Ismat Ara said, her husband might have been killed for business conflicts.