A man allegedly killed his sister-in-law by slitting throat in Khulshi, Chittagong, yesterday because his nephew got married without his consent.
Yakub, 45, allegedly murdered his brother’s wife Gulzar Begum Ruma, 37, entering her house on the High Level Road.
“Ruma was preparing her daughter for school when Yakub entered and indiscriminately started stabbing Ruma,” said Golam Morshed, Ruma’s brother.
Ruma, wife of Mohammad Yunus and mother of three kids, was taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctor announced her dead. Yunus was not at home when the incident occurred and Ruma’s throat was found slit, said Sub-Inspector Jahirul Islam, in-charge of CMCH police outpost.
Golam Morshed told the Dhaka Tribune that Yakub and Yunus had been engaged in a dispute over a piece of land for long.
Yakub wanted to build a house on Yunus’s land which triggered the rivalry. The situation turned worse after Ruma and Yunus’s son Babar married his girlfriend recently.
“Although the family members accepted the marriage, Yakub threatened to kill everyone in the family if they accepted Babar and his wife,” said Chittagong Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Dipak Jyoti Khisah quoting Ruma’s family members.
Yakub was currently on the run while preparation for filing a case in this connection was going on.
