A 52-year-old woman from Khulna, who had been missing since August 27, has been found dead in Mymensingh, according to her daughter.
"I have just found my mother's body," this is what Maryam Mannan, daughter of Rahima Begum, wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday night.
However, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), Khulna's Daulatpur police station and Mymensingh police could not confirm the matter.
The PBI is investigating the case filed over the woman's disappearance, UNB reported.
Khulna Superintendent of Police Syed Mushfiqur Rahman said the investigation officer of the case spoke to Maryam.
She told them that her mother's body was recovered from the Phulpur area of Mymensingh.
Police said the body of a woman, aged about 32, was recovered from Phulpur on September 10 and was buried.
But Rahima Begum is around 52 years old, he added. "In all, police couldn't identify the body recovered in Mymensingh."
Maryam told the investigation officer she identified her mother's body by scrutinizing a photograph of the clothes she was wearing.
Phulpur police station has collected the DNA samples of the recovered body.
The investigation officer asked Maryam to go to Phulpur police station on Sarurday. There her DNA sample will be collected and matched with the DNA of the recovered body.
"If the DNA matches it can be confirmed," said SP Mushfiqur.
Meanwhile, the daughter told the Dhaka Tribune that they used to live in a rented house as her mother had a land dispute with some neighbours in Moheshhwerpasha area of Daulatpur.
She had filed a case in this regard, Maryam said adding that as it was getting difficult for her to live in own house in Mohesshwerpasha, she rented a house in Banikpara.
Maryam said their family came under attack after lodging the case repeatedly.
The daughter said her mother received life-threats and the goons also threatened to rape her younger daughter, Maryam’s sister.
As a result her mother filed another case with Daulatpur police station.
On August 27, Rahima went missing after she had stepped out to fetch water near her home in the Banikpara area around 10pm. Her children found her sandals, scarf and the pitcher she was carrying from the spot.
The family first filed a complaint with the police, based on which an FIR was lodged by the cops against some people.
On September 13, after Rahima remained missing for 17 days and police failed to find her, her younger daughter Aduri Akter appealed to the Khulna court to transfer the case to the PBI, said Rahima's elder daughter Mariyam Mannan.
The same day the court ordered the police to hand over the case to the PBI.
So far, six people have been arrested in this case. They are Rahima's second husband Belal Howladar, Mohiuddin, Palash, Jewel, Helal Sharif, and assistant engineer at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) Golam Kibria.
As the case was investigated by the PBI, a remand appeal made by the police to interrogate Rahima's second husband Belal remains pending for hearing, said police.
Rahima's family resorted to sticking 'missing' posters in Khulna city in the hope they will get their mother back.
Our Khulna correspondent Hedait Hossain Molla contributed to this report