Woman held for 'killing stepson'

Police detained a woman for her suspected involvement in the killing of her stepson in Naogaon's Manda upazila yesterday.

Murad Hossain, 12, son of Abdur Razzak of Bilkarilla village, went missing around 9:00am. Locals found his body in a gunny bag in the same village around 4:30pm.

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On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Naogaon General Hospital for autopsy.

Anisur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Manda Police Station, said Murad, a class six student at Bilkarilla High School, was suffocated.

He said they detained Anjana Akter, the victim's step mother, on suspicion that she might have a hand in the murder.

Often, Anjana and her husband used to quarrel over their son. They had a fight yesterday morning over the same matter. This could be a reason behind the killing, said police.

A case was being filed, reported our Dinajpur correspondent around 9:00pm yesterday.