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Businessmen Murders

Angry traders threaten to stop paying taxes

Star Report
Tirade bodies warned yesterday of slopping tax payments if the slide in law and order continued, while traders of three Mirpur wards kept shops closed and took out a procession demanding arrest and trial of killers of a local entrepreneur.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead Anwar Hossain Babul, 40, treasurer ofMirpurBenarasiTanti Samity and a contractor, on Zoo Road in Rainkhola at around 7:30pm Monday.
The same day in the afternoon assailants killed travel agent Mostafa Kamal, 35, at his Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue office over a denial to pay tolls.
In reaction, members of Kazi Nazul Islam Avenue Traders Association (KNIATA) yesterday asked the association President Abul Khaer Bhuiyan to take measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents in the area.
The KNIATA members said they were struggling to survive and would be forced to stop paying Vat (value-added tax) and all other taxes if the government failed to improve law and order, they added.
The National Executive Council of Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity (BDMS) in a meeting yesterday also expressed deep concern at the deteriorating law and order and recent rise in robbery, killing and extortion.
The meeting especially condemned some recent incidents including killing of businessman at Nawabpur, jewellery robbery at Karnaphuli Garden City, police torture on Polwel Market shopkeepers and Monday's killings at Karwanbazar and Mirpur.
In retaliation to Babul murder, businessmen and locals of ward Nos. 2,3 and 5 of Mirpur yesterday kept the shutters of their shops down. They also took out a procession demanding arrest and trial of the killers who sprayed bullets on Babul in front of Don Tailors on Zoo Road in Rainkhola after the Maghrib prayers.
Locals informed Mirpur police who rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with bullet wounds in his chest and abdomen.
After the killing, local businessmen at a meeting decided to observe the strike there yesterday to press for the arrest of the killers.
However, no untoward incident
took place during the procession that paraded down the streets of ward No. 5.
The victim's wife, Selina Banu, said Babul received a call on his cellphone after he said his Maghrib prayers at their house at Block-B in Pallabi.
"A man came to our house after Esha prayers, introduced himself as a journalist and said Babul had an accident on Zoo Road," she said in the first information report (FIR).
"Having been told that he was taken to the DMCH, we went there only to find him gunned down by unidentified people," she said.
Selina filed a murder case with Mirpur Police Station yesterday. Noone was arrested nor the motive behind the murder could be known until late last night.
Referring to the recent spree of killing and extortion, the BDMS leaders in yesterday's meeting said they would hold a press briefing between February 15 and 17 to announce a greater agitation programme.
BDMS President Amir Hossain Khan chaired the meeting at a city restaurant, where, among others, Anwar Khan (Khulna), Asir Uddin Asu Mia (Chuadanga), Belal Ahmed (Chittagong), Humayun Kabir, Rezaul Islam Montu (Uttara), Ali Ferdous and IntesarAhmed (Rajshahi)spoke.
Meanwhile, the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry president, Abdul Awal Mintoo, said yesterday he would convene a meeting soon and sit with different trade bodies and business leaders to discuss the latest situation.