A farmer has died in Bogra’s Sariakandi Upazila after being beaten up allegedly by supporters of a candidate at the recently held union parishad polls.
Belal Sheikh, 35, had been undergoing treatment at Mymensingh Medical College, where he succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday night.
Officer-in-Charge of Sariakandi police station, Mizanur Rahman, said that the deceased was beaten up by his opponents over previous enmity centering on a land dispute.
Local people, on the other hand, alleged that supporters of Rafiq Sheikh, who lost in the recently held UP polls, attacked Belal on Tuesday night and left him injured at a tea stall near his house.
Local people rushed him and two others injured in the attack to hospital. Belal died at the hospital at 3am.
They said that Belal had campaigned for independent chairman candidate Rashed Mosharraf in the UP polls held on January 31.
Police said that no case had been filed over the death of the farmer till Wednesday afternoon.