Architect Imtiaz killed by gay app-based gang: DB

Staff Reporter :
The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has revealed the mystery of the murder of architect Imtiaz Mohammad Bhuiyan (47).
According to the DB officials, Imtiaz was lured to a house on Crescent Road in Kalabagan of the capital and trapped to kill by a smartphone app-based blackmailing racket. After murder, the body was dumped in Munshiganj for hiding the incident.
On Monday noon, Harun Or Rashid, head of DMP’s intelligence department, gave this information to reporters at the Metropolitan Intelligence Office.
He said that three people have been arrested so far in the Imtiaz murder case.
The arrestees have been identified as Millad Hossain Munna (19), Anwar Hossain (38) and Ehsan alias Megh
(transgender) (23). At this time, a private car used for carrying the body after the murder was recovered from them.
Harun Or Rashid said the accused are the active members of gay and transgender group. They normally target a variety of gay people through a gay dating app.
After that, the gangs call the interested people to different houses and blackmail them by talking about the room date and took away everything including the money and precious things.
On March 7, victim Imtiaz went to that house in Kalabagan. Later he was in a private room with Alif. As per the pre-plan Alif’s associates Arafat, Megh, Munna, and Anwar entered the room and started beating the victim. Then demanded a large sum of money from Imtiaz.
When he refused to pay, the accused severely beat Imtiaz on his chest and back. Consequently he died on the spot. After that, the accused took his dead body from the house and took it in Megh’s private car and dumped it in the bushes on the side of Nawabganj highway road in Kamarkanda village of Sirajdikhan thana area of Munshiganj district.
The DB officer said that the accused then fled to India by Akhaura border of Brahmanbaria. Tipped-off, Bangladesh Police informed Indian police about the border crossing.
Indian police also tried to arrest them there. The accused then tried to seek shelter in the transgender community but got rejected.
The accused then returned to Bangladesh and tried to go into hideouts, but DB arrested three of them, Harun said.
It should be noted that on March 7, architect Imtiaz Mohammad Bhuiyan went missing from Kalabagan in the capital. The next day on March 8, his family filed a General Diary (GD) with the Kalabagan police station. On the same day, his body was recovered from the bushes next to the highway road in Munshiganj.