Wife of slain Lakshmipur Jubo Dal leader Iqbal Mahbub yesterday alleged that former RAB 11 commanding officer Lt Col Tarek Sayeed Mahmud shot her husband dead on December 12.
Tarek Sayeed was forced into retirement on May 7 days after allegation surfaced about his link to the abduction and killing of seven persons, including a ward councilor and a senior lawyer, in Narayanganj.
“He shot my husband in the head in front of Chalk Masjid, leaving him dead on the spot. He took the body away in a van,” said Iqbal’s wife Monowara Begum at a press conference at her residence in the district town.
“That very day, locals held a RAB vehicle, demanding return of Iqbal’s dead body when five people had died in the RAB’s random firing,” she said.
“Now it has been six months but we have not yet got his body back,” she said.
RAB 11’s present Commanding Officer Lt Col Anwar Latif Khan said: “I have joined here just a few days ago. So, I do not have any idea about it.”
Monowara said at the press conference: “We repeatedly tried to file a case or a general diary with the police, but they refused, saying no GD or case could be filed unless a death certificate was shown.”
When this correspondent asked about the allegations over phone, Lakshmipur Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge Iqbal Hossain switched off his phone without saying anything.
The wife of the slain Jubo Dal joint general secretary urged the prime minister to intervene into the matter.
Iqbal’s father Nurul Islam, brother Sohel and daughter Afia Mahmud Nahadi were present at the press conference.