A woman’s dead body was abandoned at the hospital by her husband and in-laws in Madaripur yesterday.
The deceased was Shipon Begum, 26.
Locals said a few days ago, Shipon’s husband Belayet Hossain Talukdar, resident of Raipur village in Palang upazila under Shariatpur district, married another woman.
Yesterday morning, the couple had a fight over the issue. At one stage during the altercation, Belayet started beating Shipon where she fainted.
Shipon’s in-laws admitted her to the Madaripur Sadar Hospital nearby where the doctors declared her dead.
Sources in the hospital said there were injury marks on Shipon’s body.
The on-duty doctor Altaf Hossain said the family members of the deceased were in a hurry to take the body back to Shariatpur, but the hospital authority denied handing it over without doing an autopsy.
Soon after, the hospital authority informed police and they fled from the hospital leaving the body here, he said.
The dead body has been kept in the hospital’s emergency unit.
