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Man found dead on Dhaka expressway: Bus driver among 3 held
Published : Sunday, 6 September, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Observer Online Report
Deceased Ismail Hossain
Three people, including the driver of a Babul Paribahan bus operating on the Dhaka-Jamalpur route, have been arrested in connection with the recovery of a man’s body on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway in Banani.
The arrests were made during a joint operation by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police in the capital’s Mohakhali. The bus was also seized.
Police said a gamcha (towel) was found inside the seized vehicle and that the bus driver, Sohel Rana, had previous criminal cases against him.
Banani Police SI Nazrul Islam Talukder said the body was recovered from the elevated expressway in the Banani area at around 8:45AM on September 4.
The victim was later identified as Ismail Hossain through fingerprint matching with the national identification database.
Police said Ismail was the son of Jalal Uddin of Jalalabad in Jamalpur Sadar upazila and had been living in the Konabari area of Gazipur. At the time the body was recovered, he was wearing a blue shirt resembling the uniform worn by CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers and a lungi.
Police suspect Ismail may have been strangled to death before his body was dumped onto the elevated expressway from a vehicle.
Ismail’s son Hasan said his father had travelled to Dhaka from Jamalpur to finalise arrangements for the marriage of his younger sister, Sharmin. He was expected to finalise the wedding date and had brought money to cover the wedding expenses.
According to Hasan, Ismail left their home in Jamalpur for Dhaka at around 3:30AM on September 4. He had called the family at about 11PM beforehand, saying he expected to reach Dhaka in the morning.
He was initially supposed to go to Jirani. But when his family called him after reaching the area in the morning, his mobile phone was found switched off.
Hasan said his father had sold 11 decimals of land for Tk 1.05 million to finance his daughter’s wedding. He used Tk 200,000 to repay an earlier debt and spent some of the remaining money to build a house in the village.
He was carrying around Tk 500,000 in cash when he travelled to Dhaka, along with money for shopping, Hasan said.
Ismail also had an Android phone and a feature phone with him. Neither phone nor the cash was found after his body was recovered.
The family was later informed about the incident through the police outpost in their village in Jamalpur after Banani police contacted local authorities.
Family members said Ismail had worked as a security guard at Delta Spinning Mills but left the job around nine months ago because of illness.
He subsequently lived in Kashimpur, Gazipur, for about five months with his wife, two children and daughter-in-law before returning to his village in Jamalpur around four months ago.
His mother and elder sister currently live at the family home there.
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