Housewife strangled to death over Eid shopping

Victim Laboni Akhter, 27, wife of Abul Kalam Azad, a resident of the village, was mother of two children. Police arrested her husband Abul Kalam Azad, mother-in-law Hasna Hena and sisters-in-law Nazia Begum and Nazma Begum in this connection. Sajjad Hossain, officer-in-charge of Akkelpur police station, said Laboni had locked into an altercation with her husband over buying clothes for Eid-ul-Fitr. Over the issue, Abul Kalam along with his family members beat Laboni and later strangulated her to death around 8am. They also hanged her body to stage the incident as suicide. Upon receiving information, police recovered the body and sent it to Joypurhat Sadar Hospital morgue for a post-postmortem examination. Wazed Ali, brother of the deceased, filed a case in this connection.