Follow-up
3 alleged killers of Tangail woman, daughter held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) early yesterday arrested three suspected killers of a woman and her daughter in Delduar upazila.
The arrestees are Sanwar Hossain, 50, his son Rony, 20, and Mohammad Shorab, 32, of Borny village.
The sensational double murder took place on May 6 night at the village.
Delduar police recovered the bodies of handicraft maker Hazera Begum, 55, and her daughter Nasrin Akter, 22, from a paddy field adjacent to their house at the village.
After the incident, Hazera's son Mosharaf Hossain filed a case and police arrested Sirajul Islam, husband of victim Nasrin in connection with the murder.
Police took Sirajul on remand for three days for quizzing but could not extract any information regarding the murder.
At this stage, tracking mobile call lists, a crime prevention team of Rab-12 led by its commander Maj Mahfuzul Haque and deputy commander ASP Ashok Kumar Mondol went to Borny village and arrested handicraft maker Mohammad Sohrab, a relative of Nasrin, from his house.
On the basis of Shohrab's confession, the same Rab team later raided another house in the same village and arrested Rony from there. As per statement of Rony, they arrested Rony's father Sanwar Hossain, 50, from a house at Kumulli village in Sadar upazila, Rab sources said.
Arrested Shohrab told the journalists that Nasrin had an extra-marital affair with Rony.
An influential Sanwar, being worried and thinking that the affair might become public, planned to kill Nasrin, Shohrab said.
"He came to me, asked me to kill Nasrin and assured me that in return he will not demand Tk 25,000 that I borrowed from him," he said.
As per the plan, Rony called Nasrin out of her house and took her to a bamboo cluster at night where Shohrab and Sanwar were waiting for them. Immediately after Nasrin's arrival, Shohrab starngled her on the spot.
A few minutes later, Nasrin's mother Hazera came out of the house in search of her daughter. Shohrab strangled her also on the spot and dumped the bodies in the paddy field.
Although Shohrab claimed that he killed both the woman and her daughter, Sanwar and his son Rony told journalists that the statement of Shohrab was a cock and bull story. They strongly refuted their involvement with the murder.
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