On 25 August 2014, Farooqi was killed by 8-10 unknown assailants in his Rajabazar office.[1] Earlier a woman, mystery who had telephoned him repeatedly in order to visit him at his home. Witnesses said the woman, who was in her forties, was nervous and behaved oddly during her two-hour stay at Faooqi’s house.[2] His family claimed that several youth had come to the house to talk over Hajj and killed him. According to a local imam, two youths came to his house at around 8:30 PM, and 6-7 armed youths entered the house and demanded all the money he had.[2] When Farooqi said he had around 100,000 taka at home, they said this money would not do for so many of them.