Identity of the ‘drug dealer’ who was killed Friday in a ‘shootout’ with DB police in Gazipur has been found at last, and wife of the deceased claimed he was picked up from home and killed within an hour in cold blood.

It has been known that his name is Kamrul Islam Kamu (32) whom on Saturday police identified as Kamrul Khan Kamu, son of Tamij Uddin Khan from Tongi’s Ershadnagar.

But it turned out that Kamrul khan is in jail at present.

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A shroud of confusion was created over the identity of the deceased when his wife disclosed to media that her husband is in Kashimpur jail for the last two years.

“My husband is alive. He is at the Kashimpur jail (in Gazipur),” wife Jotsnya Begum told local reporters in Gazipur.

“The last time we met was on May 20. I panicked after receiving phone calls from reporters on Friday (Jun 1) saying he was killed in a shootout. I went to the prison and found that he was there,” she said.

Meanwhile, it has been known that deceased Kamrul Islam was the son of late Siraj Khan and hailed from Gainipara village under Kaliganj upazila in Gazipur. He lived in a rented house owner by an expatriate named Rubel living in Italy.

Asma Begum, wife of the deceased, told the media, “There was no gunfight at all. DB police called him out of home at Thursday morning and killed at night.”

But, earlier on Friday morning DB Police Inspector Ameer Hossain told the media: “Police conducted a raid at Ulukhola area 10pm Thursday where they detained one Kamrul Khan Kamu and recovered four thousand pieces of yaba tablets and a private car from his possession. His accomplices opened fire on the police team when they were returning to Kaliganj thana along with the detained Kamrul. Police also fired back in defence. At that time Kamrul died on spot being bullet injured while trying to flee from police car.”

Categorically rejecting the police version of the incident, Kamrul’s wife Asma told the Bangla Tribune: “At least five to six uniformed police members entered our house around 5am Friday. My husband opened the door after they said they were from thana. They took Kamrul away with them along with valuables and papers like television, mobile set, cash money, gold jewelries, national identity card of my husband etc.”

Asma said they searched the house so thoroughly that if there was a stitching sew, it could be found.

“When they took away my husband I requested them earnestly not to beat or kill him. I beseeched them to hand him over to court if he was really guilty.

“During the whole Thursday, I frantically searched my husband from one place to another. I was not allowed to enter the Gazipur district DB office. Later, on Friday from the neighbours I came to know about a gunfight. And after going to district hospital morgue I found his body.”

Asma seemed astonished hearing about arms and narcotics cases against her husband.

She said that they never resided at Tongi’s Ershadnagar. They used to live at Boubazar under East-Arichpur at Tongi. Kamrul was a garment worker there. Before six months, they came to Gainipara.

“I was married eight years ago. I never saw him involved in any matter related to thana, police or court. I have never heard about any case filed against him,” she also said. 

Rejecting Asma’s claim, DB Inspector Ameer Hossain said, “DB did not got his home, let alone looting valuables.”

“Kamrul was a terrorist and a drug dealer,” he confirmed again.