Bangladesh, July 6 -- A local Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader died on Saturday night at a hospital in Dhaka after being brutally beaten during a family land dispute in Dupchanchia Upazila of Bogura.

Discover more Digital Newspaper Archive Business News Section Digital Newspaper Access The deceased, Samrat Hossain Akand Bappa, was the Vice-President of the Youth and Sports Affairs Department of Dupchanchia Sadar Union Jamaat-e-Islami. He succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Dhaka after being shifted from Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogura as his condition deteriorated.

According to police and family members, a dispute over ancestral property had long existed between Samrat's father, Rafique Akand, and h...