The identity of the young man who was strangled by miscreants inside the Tejgaon Government High School at Farmgate in the city on Friday has been found out.

The brother of the victim identified the body as that of Amir Hossain, 30, the son of late one Sirajuddin, at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue yesterday.

The victim's brother said Amir, a trader in the city's Karwan Bazar vegetable market, was living with his family at Garden Road, West Karwan Bazar in Tejgaon. He was the fourth among three brothers and three sisters.

Tejgaon police arrested three people on suspicion of their alleged involvement with the killing yesterday. The arrested are -- Amulya, the sweeper, Mujibul Haque, the peon, and Abdul Khaleque, the guard -- all employees at the Tejgaon school.

Family sources alleged that the armed gang of Picchhi Hannan, one of the 23 top criminals in the city, kidnapped Amir Hossain on Friday morning from the Karwan Bazar area and later killed him after he refused to pay tolls to the gang.

Police however suspected he might be killed over previous animosity with the gang.

Sources said after kidnapping Amir, the miscreants took him to the Railgate area but sensing a police presence they later brought him to the Tejgaon Government High School complex. On a tip-off, the Tejgaon police recovered the body from the school premises around 9:00am on Friday.

According to the inquest report, both hands of the victim were tied and he was blindfolded.

An autopsy of the body was carried out at DMCH yesterday and handed over to the family members.