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Police recovered Niranjan Chandra Sutradhar's body from a floating drum near a Mymensingh sluice gate. Investigators say he may have been killed before the body was dumped, and no motive has been established.
Police have not yet established who killed the man or the motive behind the killing. (Representative Image)
Sep 26, 2026 19:22 IST
The body of a 50-year-old Hindu man was recovered from a drum floating in water near a sluice gate in the Begunbari area of Mymensingh, Bangladesh, with police suspecting that he was killed before his body was placed inside the container.
The victim was identified as Niranjan Chandra Sutradhar, who ran a jointly owned jewellery shop in the Atharbari Building area of Mymensingh.
His body was recovered on Wednesday after local residents spotted a plastic drum floating in the water near the sluice gate and alerted police, Bangladesh newspaper Dainik Ittefaq reported.
According to Dainik Ittefaq, police found a token issued by the Mymensingh Hindu Cooperative Credit Union Limited in the pocket of the trousers worn by the unidentified body.
Police contacted the organisation using the token, and its members helped establish the victim’s identity. Niranjan’s wife, Sumita Rani Sutradhar, and son, Joy Sutradhar, later identified the body.
TOKEN HELPS ESTABLISH VICTIM’S IDENTITY
Kotwali Model Police Station Sub-Inspector Ruhul Amin told Dainik Ittefaq that the token was used to trace Niranjan’s identity through the cooperative credit union.
Police then contacted his family to confirm the identification.
Police have not yet established who killed Niranjan or the motive behind the killing. No one had been detained in connection with the case as of Friday morning, according to Dainik Ittefaq.
Police said the body bore injury marks and that they suspected Niranjan had been killed before it was placed inside the drum and dumped in the water.
NIRANJAN HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE SEPTEMBER 20
Dainik Ittefaq reported that Niranjan lived with his wife and son in a rented house in the Stadium area of Mymensingh.
He had left home on September 20 and was reported missing. A nephew reportedly saw him in the Stadium area the following day.
Police said Niranjan had previously stayed away from home for several days before returning. His family therefore initially expected him to return and did not file a general diary after he went missing.
KILLING COMES AMID MINORITY SAFETY DEBATE
The killing comes amid continuing political debate in Bangladesh over the safety of minority communities.
The Awami League has accused the BNP-led government of failing to adequately protect minorities and has drawn parallels with the period of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government from 2001 to 2006.
The party has cited attacks on temples, homes and members of minority communities in making its claims.
However, those political claims are separate from the circumstances of Niranjan’s death. Police have not established a motive or said that the killing was connected to his religious identity.
The investigation into the death is ongoing.
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