Author: Staff Correspondent
Publication: Daily Star News
Date: April 21, 2003
URL: http://dailystarnews.com/200304/21/n3042101.htm#BODY11
A young computer engineer was killed
after abduction in the city Saturday night.
Police recovered the beheaded body
of Srikanta Rakshit, 27, from Tandrabil area of
Shikarpur union under Hathazari
Police Station yesterday morning.
Srikanta Rakshit, son of lawyer
Mridul Rakshit, was kidnapped from his Hazarigoli residence as he was going
to Agrabad commercial area with a friend on Saturday evening to buy computer
accessories.
As Srikanta did not come home by
9:00pm, which he was supposed to, his family began looking for him. They
also informed police.
According to a family source, a
man introducing himself as Bhola phoned Srikanta's residence early yesterday
morning, and asked the family to recover Srikanta's body from the spot.
The family members immediately went
to the Hathazari Police Station and from there they went to the spot at
around 10:00am yesterday. They found a beheaded body lying in a pool of
blood.
Srikanta's maternal uncle Shovon
Sen identified the body of his nephew there by seeing the garment in presence
of police. Later, victim's elder brother Aporoop Rakshit also confirmed
the identity, police said.
Police believe Srikanta might have
been killed following abduction at gunpoint. However, they could not say
what was the reason behind the killing.
Family sources said a land dispute
with an influential neighbour adjacent to their city residence at Hazarigoli
might have been the reason behind the murder. "We believe this is a cold-blooded
murder," said Aporoop.
Shikha Rani Rakshit, Srikanta's
mother, told journalists that the neighbour and his mother had forcibly
occupied a portion of their land on December 25, 1998 and threatened them
of dire consequences only a month ago.
