Death of DU student Hafizur: Detectives find link with LSD

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Detectives suspect Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) might have caused the mysterious death of Dhaka University student Hafizur Rahman.

On the day of incident, Hafizur took LSD which created hallucinations on his mind and Hafizur killed himself.

AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told this at a press conference held on Thursday.

A student of Department of Information Science and Library Management, Hafizur returned Dhaka from Brahmanbaria home on May 15. Since then he had been missing. Hafizur’s family identified the body at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue on May 23.

Quoting witnesses, Shahbagh police OC Mamunur Rashid tod media that Hafizur took a knife from a green coconut trader and stabbed himself on his throat with it.

At that time, Hafizur was saying ‘Forgive me, forgive me,’ said the eye witness.

During investigation, detectives on Wednesday night arrested three friends of Hafizur, who are also students of private universities, from Dhanmondi and Lalmatia areas. The DB men also seized 200 blots of LSD, worth about Tk 6 lakh, from their possessions. LSD was recovered for the first time in Bangladesh.

The arrested students are: Sadman Sakib Lupol,25, and Ashab Wadudu Turja,22, of North South University, and Adib Ashraf,23, of Independent University.

During interrogation, the arrested students said that after returning to Dhaka, Hafizur had misbehaved with a physically challenge rickshaw-puller. Later, they took drugs at Curzon Hall area in the evening.

When one of the friends told Hafizur that his behaviour with the ricksha-puller was improper, he run out of the Curzon Hall ground, grabbed legs of some rickshaw-pullers and asked forgiveness.

Later, he took the knife from the green coconut seller and hacked himself. Sensing the situation, his friends fled the scene.

DB police, in a release, said that police first arrested Lupol, a dropped out of Institute of Business Studies (IBA) at Dhaka University and later admitted to North South University.

During interrogation, Lupol said that they imported the drug from Sweden through percel service and sell each blot at Tk 3,000-4,000.

They sell the drugs through two facebook groups. One named ‘Apnar Abba’ while the other ‘Better Brownie and beyond’. Lupol manages the groups.