Dhaka: The killing of the muezzin in Old Dhaka might be linked to previous enmity, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday, reports UNB.

Billal, 55, the muezzin of the Jabbar Khan Jam-e-Masjid, was stabbed to death inside the mosque in Islampur area of the city in the early hours of Monday.

Police recovered the body of the muezzin, who had been living in a room of the three-storey mosque, from the staircase on the 1^st floor.

Victim’s elder son Yeasin filed a case with Kotwali Police Station in this connection on the same day.

Briefing reporters at the DMP Media Centre, Additional Commissioner of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit Monirul Islam said after scrutinising the murder style, it seemed that it occurred following previous enmity. ‘We’re yet to find any link of militants with the killing,’ he added.

Apart from the regular investigation by the local police station, the Detective Branch (DB) of DMP has been conducting shadow probe, he said.

The CTTC chief, however, said the investigation is going on keeping in mind every possible aspect to unearth the mystery behind the killing.