Trader beaten to death in city

Syed Mohammad Ali Nokee Tanvir, 35, a resident of Ring Road in Shaymoli, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday night after three youths admitted him there at 9:30pm.

One of his friends and business partners made a phone call to him at his house at 11:00am on Wednesday and asked him to go to one of his friend Mahmud's house at Swamibagh in Sutrapur to settle some business matters, family sources said.

"As he did not return for some hours, we made a phone call to enquire about him," said the family source, "His friend asked us to go to Dhaka Medical Hospital as he has been admitted there."

The family then rushed to the hospital and found him dead at 10:30pm.

The morgue sources said the body had marks of bruises in the hands, legs, head and chest.

Tanvir's father Syed Mostafa Kamal filed a case with Sutrpur Police Station against 14 of his friends and business partners.

Police raided Mahmud's house but could not arrest anyone.

The family also said that Tanvir had business feud with his partners for more than a month and they had filed a general diary with Mohammadpur Police Station in this regard.