The Detective Branch of police said on Sunday that the chairman of Child and Old Age Care, Milton Samadder, used to cut off the fingers of children, including those with autism or learning disabilities, at his charity home in the name of surgery.
Milton had become a dangerous psychopath, and he used to take drugs, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner (DB) Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, while talking to journalists at the DB office on Minto Road in the capital.
He told the media that Milton used to perform 鈥榮urgery鈥� by slashing people鈥檚 hands and feet. He used to cut off body parts with knives and blades if gangrene-type symptoms developed among patients, particularly the elderly and disabled child occupants of his home.
The DB chief said, 鈥楳ilton took great pleasure in cutting off the hands, feet, and fingers, seeing them in tears, pain and blood. He never took sick people to any hospital.鈥�
Following his confession, knives and blades were recovered from Milton鈥檚 鈥榦peration room鈥� where he himself used to perform the so-called surgeries, he said.
鈥楬ow could this be the face of a humanitarian? He is a psychopath,鈥� Harun said, adding that Milton only posed as a humanitarian for collecting money.
鈥榃e traced several bank accounts to Milton, and Tk 1.25 crore was found in his bank accounts,鈥� he added.
Harun also said that although Milton promoted on social media that he had buried 900 bodies, he told the police during interrogation that he had actually buried 100 bodies.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate on Sunday placed Milton Samadder on a four-day remand in a case filed with the Mirpur police under the human trafficking case.
Magistrate Begum Shanta Akhter passed the order after investigation officer Sikdar Mohitul Alam, an inspector of the DB police, produced him before the court with a seven-day remand petition for interrogation.
Earlier in the day, Milton was produced before the court on completion of a three-day remand in another case filed over forging death certificates.
A team of Detective Branch police detained Milton from the capital鈥檚 Mirpur on Wednesday after various fraud allegations against him were published in the newspaper.
A day after his arrest, a Dhaka magistrate court granted a three-day remand to Milton in the case filed for forging death certificates.
It was reported that more than 16 mobile banking numbers and three bank accounts received around Tk10,00,000 monthly as people donated directly to Milton鈥檚 institution.
According to the allegations, he misused these funds while he was also involved in the illegal trade of human organs, specifically the cutting and selling of kidneys.
The revelations led to individuals speaking out and a flurry of discussions on social media, culminating in the detainment of Milton.
Milton鈥檚 social service activities centred on the care home are widely publicised through the social media, presenting him as a person committed to serving the helpless through rescuing sick elderly people and vagabonds from the streets, and giving them shelter in the old age care home.
He also used to seek donations from affluent people to run the facilities.
