Missing pharmacist's body with wound marks found in Dhanmondi Lake

Police on Monday morning recovered the body of a pharmacist from Dhanmondi Lake a day after he went missing.

The deceased has been identified as Imtiaz Ahmed, 54, a pharmacist who used to work at General Pharmaceuticals Limited, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Dhanmondi Zone Assistant Commissioner (AC) Abdullah Al Masum.

There are injury marks on his hand, added the police officer.

Police are yet to confirm whether it was a murder, mugging or something else. "It seems not like a mugging case," he told TBS.

AC Masum said after getting a call from the National Emergency Service 999 on Monday, police reached the spot and found the body floating on Dhanmondi Lake.

With the help of fire service officials, the body was recovered around 9:30am and was sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy in the afternoon.

According to the police, Imtiaz had two wives. He used to live with one of his wives at an apartment in Dhanmondi Road-3, said Dhanmondi Police Inspector (operations) Md Russell.

Police said that Imtiaz went out of his home at around 5:30am Sunday with a bag and some of his belongings and remained missing since then. A missing general dairy was filed with the police station.

CCTV footage showed that Imtiaz had a shopping bag with him when he left the apartment. He took a rickshaw to reach the lake area. Then he walked inside the lake premises.

Sources at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary said there were several wounds on the body.

Earlier on the night of 22 October, Marine Engineer Shahadat Hossain Majumder, 51, was stabbed to death in a suspected mugging incident in the Rabindra Sarobar area in the Dhanmondi Lake.

A cellphone, Tk2,000 and a bank ATM card went missing from him. Police arrested four teens involved in the incident.

The body also bore injury marks sustained from a sharp weapon. Later, a police investigation found that he was killed by muggers.