Samiron Mridha, a 35-year old man hailing from Barisal, has confessed to killing both his mother and elder brother at their Babuganj upazila residence on January 5, over a dispute surrounding his cannabis-smoking habit.
After providing a confessional statement to a Barisal court, Samiron also narrated the events to journalists at the Barisal court compound yesterday, stating that he had been working as a security guard in Dhaka since committing the murders at his family home in Uttar Dehegati Christian Para under Dehergati union.
Sub-Inspector Alamgir Hossain, investigation officer of the case, said Magistrate Shahinur Akhtar recorded the confessional statement of Samiron yesterday under section 164 of the penal code.
On the night of January 5, Samiron was reportedly smoking cannabis at his house when his elder brother Shushil voiced his protests; prompting an intoxicated Samiron to chop Shushil to death with a sharp weapon.
Samiron also went on to hack his mother, Monika, to death after she screamed out seeing the body of her eldest son.
Later on the same night, Samiran locked the home with the bodies inside and left for Dhaka, where he later secured a job as security personnel in Royal Security Services and had been working at Farmgate’s Sejan Market since.
Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested Samiron from the market on Monday, said Babuganj police station Officer-in-Charge Shah Alam.
The bodies of Monika Mridha, 65, and Sushil Mridha, 44, were recovered from their house on the morning of January 7 by the police, after being notified by an NGO worker who had gone to the house to collect a loan installment. Both the bodies bore hacking marks on their necks and heads.
On January 8, Savita Mridha, daughter of Monika and sister of Sushil-Samiron, lodged a murder case with Babuganj police station accusing Samiron by name as the suspected killer.