Man found dead with mouth taped shut on Dhaka expressway

The man found dead on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway with his mouth taped shut had been travelling to Gazipur with Tk 500,000 from a land sale to help pay for his daughter’s wedding, his family says.

Relatives say the cash and two mobile phones he had been carrying are missing.

The victim, identified as Ismail Hossain, 50, was returning to Gazipur from his ancestral home in Jamalpur when he went missing.

His relatives identified the body at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday after police contacted the family.

Ismail was the son of Jalal Uddin of Jalalabad in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila.

His family said his only daughter, Sharmin, was due to be married and that he had sold land to raise money for the wedding.
Ismail’s son Hasan said his father had sold 11 decimals of land in the village for Tk 1.05 million.

Of that amount, he repaid Tk 200,000 in debt and spent part of the money on building a house in the village, Hasan said. “He was bringing the remaining Tk 500,000 in cash to Gazipur, along with some shopping,” Hasan said.�"bdnews24