Ariful Islam The body of a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader was recovered from the capital's Rupnagar on Friday, about 15 hours after he had allegedly been picked up by detectives. The victim, Ariful Islam Mukul, was a joint secretary of JCD's Charfashion unit in Bhola, says a central committee press note of the pro-BNP student body. His family identified the body at Dhaka Medical College morgue ye
sterday. The 22-year-old was shot thrice in the chest and abdomen, morgue sources said. Mukul, who was a fifth-semester student of law at a private university in the capital, used to live at a mess in Farmgate. His Facebook page is full of photos and news links regarding pro-BNP activities. A number of posts and photos show JCD processions in Farmgate area in support of the recent hartals and blockades. He was seen among the agitators in those photos. His uncle Tawhidul Islam told this correspondent yesterday they came to know that a body was kept at the mortuary. He later went to the morgue and found it to be his nephew's. Advertisement Rupnagar police recovered the body from Berybadh area around 9:00am on Friday. Mukul's father Mostafa Kamal, a madrasa teacher, said a neighbour told them that his son had been arrested from a launch at Sadarghat on January 29. He said his son was going to Bhola that day and remained missing since. “A neighbour named Abdul Hannan called me over the phone. He came to know about the arrest from another neighbour who was on the same launch as Mukul,” he added. Mostafa claimed a relative in the capital went to the Kotwali police that day to seek information about Mukul's arrest. The relative also went to the police on Sunday to file a general diary, but police refused to take it, said Tawhidul. Asked about the allegations of arrest and not taking the general diary, Abul Hassan, officer-in-charge of Kotwali police, said, “I did not pick him up. I will not make any more comment on it.” Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, denied that they arrested Mukul.
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