Police are yet to make arrests in the killing of retired Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Fazlul Karim, but his daughter suspects her relatives had committed murder over property matters.
Another relative of the slain police officer said Karim’s relations with his brother’s children were bitter. Karim was murdered at his Dhaka residence at Rampura on Thursday.
He had retired from police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in 2007 as an ASP.
DMP Motijheel zone Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Mehedi Hasan said several assailants had entered Karim’s residence on the second floor of a five-storey building at Wapda Road at around 10am and shot him. Karim owned the building and lived there with his family.
His brother-in-law Touhid Kashem Khan Prince said Karim’s wife, Swapna Karim, had seen a youth with firearms in the staircase when she was leaving for her daughter’s home at Gulshan.
Swapna panicked and asked him who he was looking for. Then the youth forced her to get inside the house and called two of his associates up on the second floor.
Prince said they had locked Swapna in a room and fled after shooting Karim. Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) declared the ASP dead after his driver and tenants of the building rushed him there, police outpost Inspector Md Mozammel Hoque told journalists.
Deputy Commissioner of DMP, Motijheel Md Ashrafuzzman said the motive behind the murder was still unclear. “CID and police detectives are working on the matter,” he said.
However, Karim’s daughter Farjna Karim Badhon alleged that her father might be killed over a land dispute. She said her father was involved in a dispute with his brother’s family over a house at their ancestral home at Ramkrishnadi village in Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan Upazila.
Asked about the motives behind her father’s murder, Badhon said, “Ask them. Then you will know the reason”.- bdnews24.com
