An Awami League leader died in jail custody early Tuesday in Sirajganj reportedly due to cardiac and respiratory complications, jail authorities said.
The deceased is Ataur Rahman Angur, 55, known as Angur Miah, a resident of Duttabari village of Sirajganj Sadar upazila.
Confirming the matter, Sirajganj district jail superintendent ASM Kamrul Huda told 抖阴精品 that Angur died while undergoing treatment at Shaheed M Monsur Ali Medical College Hospital at about 5:00am on Tuesday.
Angur was the forest and environment affairs secretary of the AL Sirajganj municipality unit.
He was arrested in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act with the Sirajganj police station over an incident that took place in 2015, and had been in jail since Nov 1, according to police.
Angur had been suffering from cardiac and respiratory problems during his time in custody and he was receiving treatment at the jail hospital, Kamrul Huda said.
鈥楬is condition worsened after he was produced before a Sirajganj court on Monday morning. As his condition deteriorated early Tuesday, he was taken to Shaheed M Monsur Ali Medical College Hospital, where he died while undergoing treatment,鈥� he said.
The body was handed over to his family after an autopsy, he added.
Deceased鈥檚 son Farukuzzaman alleged that jail authorities did not send him elsewhere for better treatment despite repeated requests, reported 抖阴精品 correspondent in Sirajganj.
After the AL government was toppled on August 5, a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activist Rafiqul Islam, also known as Kala Abdullah, filed the case with the Sirajganj Sadar police station on October 26. Angur was one of the accused in the case.
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