Elder brother arrested a month after younger brother beaten to death over waste dumped on farmland in Birampur, Dinajpur

Police have arrested ATM Shamsuzzaman, the main accused in the beating death of his younger brother Mukul Hossain (40) in Birampur, Dinajpur.

He was sent to a Dinajpur court on Tuesday. Before that, he was arrested in a joint operation from the Dashmile area of Dinajpur on Monday night.

The arrested man, ATM Shamsuzzaman, is the son of Monir Uddin of Krishtachandpur village in the Birampur municipal area and an assistant teacher at a local government primary school.

According to the case, on October 5 in Krishtachandpur village, the elder and middle brothers and several others together beat younger brother Mukul Hossain following a dispute over dumping waste on farmland. He died as a result.

When a murder case was filed at Birampur police station the day after the incident, police immediately detained one person. The other accused, however, went into hiding.

Birampur police station officer-in-charge (OC) Abdur Razzak said the main accused in the Mukul murder case, ATM Shamsuzzaman, was sent to a Dinajpur court on Tuesday.