Body of teenage cleaner recovered four days after disappearance in Tejgaon
The body was recovered at around 11:30pm from the generator room behind the factory of Salim Industries, where he worked.
Police last night (1 February) recovered the partially decomposed body of a 17-year-old cleaner, Mohammad Bijoy, four days after he went missing from his workplace at a factory in Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka.
The body was recovered at around 11:30pm from the generator room behind the factory of Salim Industries, where he worked.
Confirming the incident, Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station Inspector (Investigation) Md Badal Gomesta said police suspect that Bijoy was murdered.
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The deceased was the son of Amzad Hossain of Moujati village in Muktagachha, Mymensingh, and had been living with his family in the Sattala slum area of Mohakhali.
In connection with the incident, his father filed a murder case at Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station today (2 February).
The case names factory peon Raju Ahmed and 32 unidentified individuals as accused.
The victim's family alleged that Bijoy was beaten to death with a brick by Raju over a financial dispute. Police sources said the main suspect has been absconding since the incident and that his mobile phone remains switched off.
Inspector Badal told TBS that Bijoy had been missing since Thursday (29 January) after leaving for work. Following his disappearance, his family filed a general diary at Banani Police Station.
He said police received information from the factory's admin manager at around 10:30pm and immediately rushed to the scene.
Officers found injury marks on Bijoy's head and a blood-stained brick lying beside the body.
The body was subsequently sent to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for autopsy.
