Bagerhat: A 48-year-old lawyer was stabbed to death by miscreants at Harikhali Tetultala in Bagerhat district town early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Nizam Uddin Shanto, assistant public prosecutor of Bagerhat court and resident of Sadar upazila.
According to United News of Bangladesh, Md Shamsul Arefin, Officer-in-Charge of Bagerhat Sadar Model Police Station, reported that a group of miscreants waylaid Shanto at Tetultala while he was returning home on a motorbike around 1 am and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him injured. He was subsequently taken to Bagerhat 250-bed District Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Advocate Wahiduzzaman Dipu, former President of Bagerhat District Lawyers Association and member of BNP central unit, mentioned that Shanto had an enmity with some people over the ownership of a shrimp enclosure. He also demanded the immediate arrest of the attackers.