Boy killed 'by stepmother'
Police on Sunday night recovered the body of a boy, who was killed allegedly by his stepmother, in Khilkhet area of the capital.
The victim Sheikh Mohammad Ishmam, 12, a class IV student of Khilkhet Protyasha School, lived at Jamtola in the area with his stepmother Parveen Akhter, 22.
Ishmam's father Sheikh Shahnewaz of Sylhet is an expatriate in the Middle East.
Shamim Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Khilkhet Police Station, told The Daily Star that locals on Sunday informed them that the woman had fled after killing her stepson.
Police broke open the door of the victim's house and found the body lying on the floor.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Morgue sources said the boy was strangled and there were some old injury marks in the body.
The OC said Ishmam's stepmother left their rented house on Saturday and the boy might have been killed by the woman sometime on that day.
A case was filed against Parveen and Ishmam's father Shahnewaz with the police station yesterday.
The OC said they heard that Shahnewaz has come to Bangladesh but they could not confirm the matter.
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