A young woman was found with her throat slit inside her own home in the capital’s Mirpur area yesterday afternoon.
The victim, Amena Khatun Reshma, 18, was a second-year student at BCIC College in Mirpur.
Police said Reshma’s body was found inside the first-floor flat in an under-construction five-storey building in Mirpur’s Rainkhola area; Reshma lived with her mother Mariam Begum and step-father Alamgir in the flat.
Masud Ahmed, additional deputy commissioner of Mirpur Division at Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said police suspected that Reshma was murdered as a result of a family feud, and her step-father and 21-year-old step-brother are the primary suspects.
Reshma was the owner of the flat they were living in and Alamgir, a fourth-class employee at the BCIC Bhaban in Motijheel, wanted her to transfer the ownership in his name, sources at police said.
Police arrested Alamgir as well as Reshma’s mother Mariam. The step-brother does not live with the family and is yet to be arrested.
Before getting arrested, Mariam claimed that she had left home for Hajipara in the morning, and Reshma and Alamgir were in the flat. Later, Alamgir left for his office.
When Mariam returned home an hour later, she found her daughter’s body lying in a pool of blood with a deep gash on her throat. A sharp kitchen knife was found beside the body.
Mariam told police that the house had been robbed and some money was missing.Alamgir rushed back home from work around 2:30pm after he was informed of the incident.
He claimed that he locked the flat from outside when he had left for work, because both he and his wife had keys; Reshma was alone in the flat. The dead body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.