Police's Detective
Branch (DB) Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told reporters on Monday that they
were yet to ascertain the motive behind the killings
The police official
said that three teams of the Detective Branch were investigating the
incident.
He said that the police were 'more or less' certain that at
least eight people were involved in the killing and not 10-12 people as they had
assumed earlier.
Families of the victims and police say the killers
entered the house in the guise of disciples of so-called Pir (saint) Lutfur
Rahman Faruk and committed the macabre murders.
Police suspect previous
enmity or ‘differences over religious belief’ is the motive while the families
say religious fanatics might be involved.
Unknown assailants slaughtered
the six, including Faruk, 60, and his son Sarwar Islam aka Monir, on the first
floor of a four-storey building at Ramkrishna Mission Road on Saturday
evening.
The other victims were the house's caretaker Monjur Alam aka
Monju and Faruk's followers 'Shaheen', 'Rasel', and Mojibur
Rahman.
Lutfur’s younger son Abdullah Al Faruk filed a case late Saturday
night accusing 10-12 unidentified people, Wari Police Station's sub-inspector
Zahidur Rahman said.
Though ‘some articles’ have been taken away from the
house, police believe it was not a case of robbery.
Police officials said
Lutfur sometimes claimed himself as Imam Mahadi and sometimes ‘chief commander’
and he and his disciples performed religious rituals in their own
style.
In Islamic eschatology, Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of
Islam who will rule the world for several years before the Day of Judgment and
will rid it of evil.
Six people were picked up from the area
following the incident on Saturday but were released after
questioning.
Lutfur hailed from Char Baruri under Bhuapur Upazila in
Tangail. His son Sarwar was working at City Bank’s Sadargaht
branch.
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