Ex Addl Secretary’s body recovered from Officers’ Club

The body of former Additional Secretary Md Mosharraf Hossain was recovered from an under-construction building inside the Officers’ Club in Ramna of Dhaka on Friday.

Police recovered him unconscious from beside a staircase on the ground floor of the building around 11:15 AM on October 16. He was taken to BIRDEM Hospital in Shahbagh and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on medical advice, where doctors declared him dead.

Ramna Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Yasin Mia said, the media that Mosharraf Hossain had gone to the Officers’ Club around 10:00 AM to teach his younger daughter how to swim. He left his daughter near the swimming pool and entered the under-construction building.

According to the OC, CCTV footage from the club showed Hossain repeatedly moving upstairs and downstairs, possibly while trying to find his way. At one point, he reportedly fell from an open area on Basement-1.

Police have prepared an inquest report on the body.

Police said, the body would be handed over to his relatives for burial without an autopsy, as the family did not want a post-mortem examination.

-MT