Police recovered the
body of an employee of a rice wholesale depot was recovered from his workplace in
Jashore Sadar upazila early Monday.
The deceased was Bayezid Hasan, 28, son of Nazrul Islam, hailed from Banargati village in Khulna city. He was an employee of the rice depot owned by Jashore city unit BNP's president Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury Malluk Chand.
Kotwali Police Station officer-in-charge Abdur Razzaque said Bayezid allegedly stole Tk five lakh from the rice depot few days back.
"He might have been beaten and strangled to death over the issue," he said.
Being informed, a police team rushed to the spot and recovered the body from around 3 am, the OC said, adding that the body was sent to Jashore Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The night guard of the wholesale depot was arrested in this connection.
The process file a case in this regard was underway, added the OC.
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