A case was filed with Hatirjheel Police Station in Dhaka on Saturday night over a shooting at the parked private car of singer and former Bangladesh Cricket Board director Asif Akbar, but police have yet to identify the person responsible.

Law enforcement agencies are collecting and analysing CCTV footage from the scene and surrounding buildings to identify the suspect.

Asif Akbar filed the case on Saturday night, October 24, confirmed Hatirjheel Police Station officer-in-charge Md Asaduzzaman.

According to the case statement, Asif was in his office at around 4:50am on Saturday when he heard a loud noise from below. Upon checking the parking area, he found that the glass of the rear right-hand door of his car had been shattered.

He then returned to his office to review the CCTV footage.

According to the statement, footage showed a person getting out of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw that had arrived via the road beneath the flyover from Moghbazar towards Wireless and approaching the parking area at Bishal Center.

The person then fired a shot at the window of the car’s rear right-hand door before fleeing in the same auto-rickshaw, the statement said.

After being informed of the incident, police from Hatirjheel Police Station visited the scene and recovered a fragment of the projectile.

In the case statement, Asif estimated the damage to the car’s window at around Tk 20,000.