Bangladesh has launched a countrywide manhunt for nabbing the mastermind of a gruesome triple murders that have shaken the government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and put on alert the Bangladesh Rifles so that he and his accomplices could not cross the border to neighboring India. âWe are making ceaseless and allout efforts to get the culprits,â said a senior official of the Home Ministry yesterday. The mastermind Kajal, a family friend and business partner of old Dhaka businessman Shamsul Haq and his son, is absconding since the macaber murders were unearthed following recovery of 200 pieces of their bodies at Gazipur, north of Dhaka city.
"Inspector Camembert! How can you be sure it was murder and not suicide?"
"Their bodies were chopped into 200 pieces, Legume!"
"Ahhh! I see!..."
"Not 201 and not 199. It is a well-known fact in the literature of crime that suicides never chop themselves into even numbers!" |
The killings of Shamsul Haq and his son Russell Sheikh came to light two days after police found their driver hacked to death in Dhamrai, about 50 kilometers off Dhaka, in the first signs of the incident that underlined security fears of businesspeople. The 56-year-old and his 29-year-old son went missing after they left home with 200,000 taka on Friday after a phone call from Kajal, accused as the prime suspect in a case filed with Sutrapur police station. |