[Bangla Daily Star] Unidentified criminals gunned down a Juba League leader, who is also a contractor and a restaurant owner, in the city's Mohakhali area yesterday evening.Anwar Hossain Liton, 44, a joint secretary of Dhaka city unit Juba League, was killed following a dispute over submitting a tender to the Chest Diseases Hospital at Mohakhali.
Witnesses said two men in a white microbus stormed into Liton's own restaurant 'Fuljhuri Hotel and Restaurant' at around 8:30 pm and shot three shots at him and fled the scene by the vehicle, waiting for them. Police said Liton was rushed to the hospital where on duty doctors declared him dead.
Talking to The Daily Star at Mohakhali residence of Liton, some of his friends told that he might have been killed following a dispute over the tender.
Sources said there was a feud among the contractors over the tender valued at Tk 4 crore against supply of food to the chest diseases hospital. Today is the last day of submitting the bid.
OC Kamal Uddin of Gulshan Police Station told The Daily Star, "The dispute over the tender might be one of the reasons behind the killing."
"We are yet to know any more about the motive behind the murder," he added.
The victim's sister Nasrin Zahan said, "My brother was involved in politics, contracting and hotel business. We could not ascertain the cause behind the murder."
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