River police have recovered the body of a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit from the Buriganga river in Narayanganj’s Fatulla, five days after he went missing.
The body of Duranta Biplab, 51, son of late Abdul Mannan from Choto Ilashpur of Netrokona’s Purbadhala upazila, was fished out from the river on Saturday afternoon, Pagla Naval Outpost OC Shahjahan Ali said to The Business Post.
The last tracked location of Biplab’s mobile phone was in Muslimbagh area of Kamrangirchar, police said.
The body was taken to the morgue of Narayanganj General Hospital for an autopsy.
“The body was swollen and disfigured. Red injury marks were found on the head. The rest of the details will be reported after finalising the autopsy,” said Narayanganj General Hospital Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Sheikh Farhad on Sunday.
Biplab was the General Secretary of BCL’s JU unit and a member of Awami League’s (AL) sub-committee on Agriculture and Cooperatives.
Biplab’s family members came to Narayanganj early Sunday and identified him from a photo.
According to the relatives of the deceased, Biplab went missing while going to Mohammadpur from Keraniganj to meet his mother on November 7.
