Jumbangla Desk: Chafiullah alias Chabur (55), convicted in a drug case, died after jumping into a lake to avoid arrest in Chandpur's Shahrasti.

Chafiullah alias Chabur

On Tuesday (October 22) at around 7 pm, local people threw a net in the pond of Shahrasti shrine and recovered the body of the person. Son of deceased Tayyab Ali of Sreepur Village, Ward No. 6, Chhabur Municipality.

Locals said that ASI Saddam Hussain of Shahrasti police station along with the allied forces conducted an operation to arrest him as he had a six-month sentence warrant in a case. To avoid arrest, he jumped into the pond of the shrine. Immediately, the police jumped into the water to rescue him, but he sank deep in the water. At one point local people threw a net in the lake and rescued him dead.

The former councilor of that ward of the municipality Kazi A. Quddus Rana said, in the afternoon there was a local Shalis. Shafiullah was present there. When Shafiullah left the meeting, the police tried to arrest him. He jumped into the pond and drowned.

The former councilor of ward number 7 of the municipality. Delwar Hossain said that the local people threw boats and nets and tried to rescue Chafeuleh. At one point, his body was recovered with a fishing net.

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Shahrasti Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Abul Basar said that the person was sentenced to 6 months in a drug case. He jumped into the lake on seeing the police. He drowned in the water and was later found dead. Further legal action will be taken after postmortem.