A mentally challenged man succumbed to his injuries on Sunday who was injured reportedly after being beaten by his neighbours at Nageshwari upazila in Kurigram district.
The deceased was identified as Jahidul Islam, 35, son of Boyez Uddin, from Bhitarband Kochpara area under the upazila.
A case was filed with Nageswari Police Station in this regard.
According to the case statement, Jahidul went missing since August 2 and found him in a viral social media video on September 3. The video shown Jahid was admitted at Rangpur Medical College Hospital. Eventually his family members recovered him from the hospital and brought him home on September 5.
The family members said that during Jahid's stay in home, he said to the family members that he made a joke about a woman who is wife of one Nazrul Islam from the adjacent Chandipur village under Hasnabad union. Following this, the husband along with Rafiqul Islam and Habibur Rahman beat him mercilessly. When the victim fell sick, the accused took him to the medical college hospital and left him there.
Since then, he was being treated at the hospital as an anonymous. As he recovered a bit, the family members brought him home on September 5, but his condition deteriorated on September 7.
Later, he succumbed to his injuries around 4 PM on Sunday (September 22).
The victim's brother Emdadul Haque filed a murder case with Nageswari Police Station as the plaintiff.
Confirming the information, officer-in-charge of the police station Rup Kumar said the body was sent to hospital morgue for autopsy and efforts are on to arrest the involved individuals.