A body was recovered from a rice wholesale depot in Jashore Sadar upazila early Monday. The ill- fated man was an employee there.
The deceased Bayezid Hasan, 28, son of Nazrul Islam of Banargati village in Khulna city.
He was an employee of the rice depot owned by Jashore city unit BNP’s president Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury Malluk Chand.
Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdur Razzaque said Bayezid allegedly stole Tk five lakh from the rice depot few days back.
He might have been beaten and strangled to death over the issue, he said.
Being informed, a police team rushed to the spot and recovered the body from around 3 am, the OC said, adding that the body was sent to Jashore Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The night guard of the wholesale depot was arrested in this connection.
A case will be filed in this connection, he added.
