ছবি: আজিজুর রহমান মুছাব্বির
In Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar, a long-running turf dispute over market control and extortion revenues allegedly led to the contract killing of opposition activist and former Dhaka North Swechchhasebak Dal general secretary Azizur Rahman Mussabbir, with police arresting four suspects—three of them siblings—after uncovering a murder-for-hire operation financed with roughly fifteen lakh taka through a fugitive crime boss abroad and coordinated by his local associate. Investigators say the killing was planned days in advance, with reconnaissance around Mussabbir’s regular gathering spot near the Star Hotel, motorbike-assisted drop-offs for the shooters, and at least one accomplice maintaining visual confirmation on the main road; during the attack, a local labor union leader accompanying Mussabbir was also shot and hospitalized. The case has revived scrutiny over the intersection of politics, criminal networks and market rackets in the capital, as detectives examine motives linked to extortion, business interests and rising political visibility of the victim; authorities expect to seek remand for interrogation, continue the search for the weapon and fugitives, and determine how foreign coordination, cash incentives and local muscle combined to produce a highly organized assassination in a densely trafficked commercial zone.
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