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Murder it was

Staff Correspondent
It all happened on May 23 evening, 2008. An armed gang of seven broke into Dr Tofatun Nahar's house on Hare Street in the capital. They pointed firearms at her younger son Arifur Rahman Khan Setu and asked him to bringTk 12 lakh from his mother.
They started beating him and dragged him onto the road from the first floor of the house.
When Setu cried for help, his elder brother Atiqur Rahman Khan Bappi and younger brother Ashiqur Rahman Khan Apu came out of the house to his aid.
The criminals opened fire on them leaving Apu dead, and his brothers Bappi and Setu injured.
Hearing gunshots, Tofatun, who was offering prayers, came down from the fourth floor of the house to the street.
The two siblings survived but were maimed for life. Bappi is now studying in the UK while a crippled Setu is compelled to stay home all the time. Their gynecologist motherTofatun was so devastated that she discontinued her job at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Medical College and Hospital.
The family was clueless aboutthepricetheywouldhave to pay for renting out the first floor and a part of the ground floor in 2004 to a 38-year-old man, Iftekhar BegJhalak.
The man told them that he would open a restaurant there. He paid Tk 5 lakh in advance but never paid monthly rent.
"Jhalak's house rent and other utility charges had been due for a year," Tofatun Nahar toldThe Daily Star.
When Tofatun, a widow, asked Jhalak to vacate the house and hung up a to-let signboard at the building, her tenant hired the criminals to intimidate the family to retain possession of the two floors
and extort money from them, alleged the house owner.
One of the attackers was hit by a bullet during the incident and was later arrested by police from a hospital.
Witnesses said suspected criminals Nawshad Hossain Molla alias Robin and Iftekhar Beg Jhalak entered the building while their associates Mohammad Ali Munna, Biplob Chandra Das, Atiq Ahmed Shiplu, Monjurul Abedin Russel and Mahabub Alam were on the road in front of the house.
Russel fired shots first and his cohorts sprayed bullets afterafewmoments, they said.
Police said Jhalak hired the criminals to make the attack onTofatun's family members.