An expatriate man hired a killer in exchange for Tk two lakh to kill her wife and dump the body 80 feet beneath the surface in a worn-out tube well’s pipe in Debidar of Comilla.
The shocking incident was revealed after police arrested the alleged killer Abdul Karim after around a month on Thursday evening. Acting on his information, police located the body of victim Shahina Akhter, 32, but could not recover it till yesterday.
Brother of the victim Shah Alam Sarker said Shahina and Mobarrak Hossain,an expatriate in Dubai, tied the knot twelve years back. They have two sons and a daughter.
Two years ago, Mobarrak came to Bangladesh and became embroiled in a heated altercation with her wife. Mobarrak and his family members began torturing her over the dispute. Mobarrak went back to Dubai after four months but his family members continued torturing his wife.
“My sister couldn’t take it anymore and at one stage lodged a case with Debidar Police Station. Mobarrak pressured her to withdraw the case over phone.
He also asked her to leave Mobarrak’s house in Sultanpue union’s Sechrapukuria village but Shahina denied,” Shah Alam told the Dhaka Tribune.
On February 7, Shahina went missing from her in-law’s house and Shah Alam filed a general diary in this connection.
Sub-inspector Shah Kamal Akand, also the investigation officer, said they arrested Abdul Karim on information from Mainamati Cantonment area and he confessed to be paid Tk two lakh to kill Shahina.
“According to the deal, Karim and two of his cohorts called Shahina, asked her to come out of the house around 12:00am on February 7 and strangled her to death.
They dumped the body in a tube-well’s pipe and closed the pipe’s opening with mud,” he said.
“We couldn’t recover the body on Thursday night as no worker to dig out the body was available,” he said, adding they contacted a team of workers in Comilla for the task.
Visiting the house of the deceased, this correspondent found her children Imran Hossain, 11; Tushar Ahmed, 8; and Rozia Akhter, 5; crying holding the pipe of the tube-well under which their mother’s body was dumped.
Imran told reporters their mother went to sleep with them after having dinner but they could not find her in the morning.