RAB claims to know the motive for the murder of army officer's mother

Monowara Begum was the mother of Army Officer Lt Col Khild Bin Yusuf. She was hacked to death at home in Uttara on June 4. RAB arrested two people in connection, one was already under the law enforcers custody. The two were – security guard of the house Ghulam Nabi alias Abu alias Robi and a tenant of the building Laili alias Labonnyo. According to RAB Labonnyo rented an apartment on the second floor of the house on May 22. She was previously acquainted with the security guard Robi. Labonnyo confessed to being a sex workers according to the statement she gave to the RAB. She had changed apartments at least 12 times in the last seven to eight years in Uttara. During a press briefing RAB 1 Commanding Officer (CO) Lt Col Tuhin Md Masud said: “RAB arrested Robi from his in-laws house at Cox's Bazar on August 4. During the primary interrogation he confessed that the murder was masterminded by Labonnyo.” As soon as the house owner found out that Labonnyo was conducting her sex work from the house, she asked her to vacate the apartment. On May 29 she told Robi about the incident and her plans to kill Monowara. She called Robi to the building on June 4 and the duo went to Monowara's apartment late at night and started a conversation with her but within minutes began to carry out their plan to kill her with a knife. Labonnyo covered Monowara's face with a scarf while Robi stabbed her with a knife. During the murder, the knife broke so they killed her by suffocation. They also looted Tk1,13,000 from the apartment which they split equally between themselves. Robi bought an expensive cell phone with that money and fled to Cox's Bazar.