Jubo League activist killed over ‘political feud’

Some miscreants attacked Rizvi Hasan Babu, 34, locally known as Bocha Babu, and Ahsanul Haque Emon, 32, at a club room inside the colony around 11:20pm on Friday leaving them critically injured. Police say the murder was preplanned and that it took place over a political feud. The duo were first taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 12:30am. Babu was later shifted to Square Hospital. The authorities at Square Hospital referred him to Apollo Hospital where the on duty doctors pronounced him dead as soon as he was taken there around 2:30am, said Motijheel police station’s Sub-Inspector Munibur Rahman. Emon is now undergoing treatment at the DMCH. A security guard at the colony, seeking anonymity, said that some youths had forced them not to go near the crime spot. President of Ward 10 Dhaka city (south) unit Jubo League Maruf Reza Sagar alleged that Anwar Hossain Milon, Anwarul Azim Tushar, Hirok and some others led the attack on the duo over previous enmity. Milon is the general secretary of the newly-announced ward committee while Tushar is a Shechchhasebok League leader. Sagar claims himself the nephew of former Jubo league leader Reazul Hasan Khan Milki, who was shot dead in Gulshan by a rival group on July 29, 2013, to establish supremacy. He claimed that Milon and his associates were freed recently on bail in a case filed with Motijheel police for vandalising their party office few days back. The party office was previously used by Milki. When contacted, both Milon and Tushar blamed Sagar for carrying out the attack on Babu and Emon. “The attack was made so that Sagar does not need to face a political competitor in the area. He has been patronising criminals since the death of Milki,” Milon alleged. Tushar also refuted the allegation, and claimed that Sagar had long been trying to spoil the political environment since long. Jubo league activists of the ward present at the hospital claimed that Babu told his father the names of the six attackers while undergoing treatment. The father, Abul Kalam, refused to disclose the names. Meanwhile, police sources said that Babu had at least five cases including for murder and looting against him. Several cases were also filed against Sagar and Milon, said Motijheel police’s Inspector (investigation) Golam Rabbani. Babu was killed over local political feud. “We are trying to arrest the attackers,” he said, adding that Babu’s father had given them some names.