Body exhumed after 38 days, wife confesses to killing

The body of a man, killed by his wife in Mobarakganj Sugar Mills area on March 26, was exhumed on Sunday. 

The victim, Rafi Uddin, 52, son of Tahazzed Hossain of Baroipara village under Sreepur upazila of Magura district, was a garage mechanic of the sugar mills. 

Police arrested his wife Fatema Khatun, 45, from Magura on Saturday. On the basis of her confessional statement, law enforcers exhumed the decomposed body on Sunday morning from a cowshed in Mobarakganj Sugar Mills area.

Police and locals said Rafi and Fatema locked in an altercation over a trivial matter on the night of March 26. At one stage, Fatema hit Rafi on the head with an iron rod. He died instantly. 

Later, Fatema with the help of Anis Bhuyan, also an employee of the sugar mills, severed Rafi's legs and put them in a sack. They dug a hole in the cowshed near Rafi's house and dumped his body into it the same night.  

After two days, Fatema said her husband had gone to his village home in Magura and remained missing since then. At this, the sugar mills authorities filed a general diary (GD) with Kaliganj Police Station on April 2. 

Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anwar Hossain of Kaliganj Police Station said they arrested Fatema with the help of Magura police, suspecting her involvement in the murder. During interrogation, she confessed to killing her husband, the OC added.