"Youse'll never take me alive, coppers! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] Aaaaiiiieeee! [Gasp!] [Rattle!] Rosebud!"
The deceased, Shahidul Islam Chanchal, also known as Bhagne Chanchal, 35, was a nephew of Sweden Aslam, a top criminal who is now in jail serving life sentence.
Ja, sure. Dat makes sense. "Martyr of Islam" Chanchal vuz the nephew of Big Swede Aslam.
Chanchal was killed in a gunfight
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
with Rab in front of BSTI (Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution) office in the area around 1:30am, Md Jahangir, sub-inspector (SI) of Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station told The Daily Star.
"Ja, sure! I t'ink dat's 7 p.m. Stockholm time, you betcha!"
A top official of Rab-2 said Chanchal used to extort businessmen in Karwan Bazar and Farmgate areas using Sweden Aslam's name.
"Gimme some dough or youse'll be hearin' from Big Swede!"
"But he's in jug!"
"Youse'll hear from him when he gets out!"
Local sources said Chanchal and Sweden Aslam's brother used to control the gang of Sweden Aslam since he landed in jail in 1998.
"Now lissen up, you mugs! I'm takin' over, see?"
Chanchal's family members, however, claimed he was a trader at Purba Tejturi Bazar in Farmgate area. "He is the owner of Janata Builders, and also a first class contractor," Manager of Janata Builders Md Mintu said.
"He built me this house, see?"
"A group of plainclothes men, who introduced themselves as law enforcers, came at his [Chanchal's] Dhanmondi residence at around 12:30am and took him away in a microbus.
"Into the microbus wit' yez!"
"But I didn't..."
"Shuddup."
"In the morning we learned that he is dead," Mintu said.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Rab-2 officials said one of their patrol teams signalled the car Chanchal was riding, but he did not stop and went into the side lane instead.
"You in the microbus! Pull over!"
The team then followed the car and at one stage cordoned it. Chanchal fired twice at the Rab personnel prompting them to fire back. Later they recovered the bullet-hit body of Chanchal, Rab officials said.
"Where was it?"
"Still in the microbus."
"Guess we shoulda looked there earlier."
Rab men also recovered a foreign pistol loaded with four bullets.
"Run this pistol, Sergeant Rafiq!"
"It sez 'Made in Guatamala,' sir!"
Dhaka Medical College morgue sources said they have found eight bullet wounds to Chanchal's body.
"No, wait. Seven. Seven bullet holes. That one's not a bullet hole. Sorry."
Omar Faruk, officer-in-charge of Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station told The Daily Star that they recovered the car Chanchal was riding with marks of bullets from the spot.