The deceased was identified as Ansarul Haque Talukdar, 55, son of Mujibur Rahman of Phulbari upazila in Mymensingh.
Sheikh Mizanur Rahman, inspector (investigation) of Sadar Police Station, said Ansarul used to live at a staff quarter of BARI as his wife is an employee of the institute.
Besides, his daughter Jannatul Ferdous Arbin is also an employee of the institute.
Recently, Arbin went to her village home to spend her maternity leave and her mother was living at her flat in her absence. On Friday night, Ansarul took dinner at his daughter’s flat as his wife was there and went out to go to his own flat around 10:45 pm.
Ansarul’s son Mahin said, he received a phone call after an hour of his father’s departure saying that his father was lying bloodstained near their house.
Later, he was taken to Shaheed Tajuddin Medical College Hospital where the doctors decalred him dead said Pronoy Bhushon Das, the resident medical officer of the hospital.
However, the reason behind the killing couldn’t be known immediately and nobody was arrested till Saturday over the killing.