RANGPUR, Apr 04 (Agencies): Special public prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik was found dead at Tajhat Mollahpara of the city early Wednesday, five days after he went missing.
Based on the information gleaned from his wife Snigdha Sarkar Dipa, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered Rathish's body from under the ground at an under-construction building site around 2am, Commanding Officer of Rab-13 Major Armin Rabbi told UNB.
Later, victim's brother Sushanta Bhowmik identified him.
RAB said Rathis was killed over an extramarital affair of his wife.
Rathis's schoolteacher wife Dipa Bhowmik and her colleague and lover Kamrul planned to murder Rathis two months ago. To execute the plan, on the night of Mar 29, they laced his dinner with sleeping pills and strangled him with a scarf.
The next day, the body was stuffed into an almirah and later taken to an under-construction building, half a kilometre away from Rathis's home in Babupara. The body was buried into a hole dug by their two students.
The building was in Tajhat Mollapara area, owned by Kamrul's brother Khademul Islam.
"This is the story of Rathis's death," said RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed who disclosed the story in detail from a news conference in the RAB-13 Rangpur office on Wednesday. "The whole drama was staged by his wife and her lover Kamrul. Rathis always suspected his wife and they fought frequently over the affair," he said.
Dipa confessed to the RAB that she had an extramarital affair with Kamrul.
The RAB has already arrested four persons -- Dipa, Kamrul and their two students of Tajhat High School. The two teenagers were paid Tk 300 each. The RAB recovered Rathis's body after interrogating Dipa.
Rathis was a father of two. His son is a law student of a private university in Dhaka. His younger daughter is a student of IX at Rangpur Lion's School and College. During the incident, his son was in Dhaka and the daughter in her relative's house.
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