Police in gear after double murders
Badda murder prime suspect held in Khulna,
2 remanded over Kakrail murder
Staff Reporter
The two incidents of double murder in the capital within a bracket of just eleven hours have caused concern among the people and also caused a stir in the government. Following a home ministry directive to the police to find the killers, the prime suspect of the Badda murder, Shahin Mallik, and his wife was arrested by police yesterday morning from Khulna city. Meanwhile, the Kakrail murder victim womans husband and his third wife have been placed on 6-day police remand by a Dhaka court.
When contacted over the incidents, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said that police are working on the cases and have already made significant progress. The home ministry has given strict instructions to the police to thoroughly investigate the two incidents of murders and arrest the perpetrators as quickly as possible. A prime suspect has already been arrested from Khulna. The police is continuing their investigations in this regard with due importance, he said.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from Badda Police Station, with support from local police, yesterday morning arrested prime suspect Shahin Mallik, 22, and his wife Masuma, 20, from Mohammadnagar area of Khulna city over the killing of a man and his daughter in the capitals Badda area. The arrestees were sublet tenants at the victims residence. They fled the house after the double murder. The police joint team raided the house of Shahins brother around 5am and arrested them. Later, the arrestees were sent to Dhaka, said police. Earlier, Shamim Sheikh, brother of the victim Jamil, on Thursday night, filed a murder case accusing Arjina, and Shahin, who was a sublet tenant at the victims residence, said Badda police OC Kazi Wazed Ali.
On Thursday, Jamil, 38, and his daughter Nusrat, 9, were found dead in their rented house at Moynar Bagh in Badda area of the capital. Jamils body bore multiple stab injuries while police suspected that Nusrat might have been strangled.
Police detained Arjina from the crime scene for interrogation, who was later named as an accused in the murder case.
Senior assistant commissioner of Police(Badda Zone) Ashraful Kabir said Shahin allegedly had an extra-marital affair with victim Jamils wife Arjina Begum, which may have been the reasons behind the murder.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday placed the woman victims husband and his third wife on 6-day remand in a case over the killing of a woman and her son in the citys Kakrail area.
Those remanded are Abdul Karim, 56, husband of victim Shamsun Nahar and his third wife Sharmin Akhter Mukta, 25.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Khurshid Alam passed the order after Ali Hossain, sub-inspector of Ramna Police Station, and also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand.
Ashraf Ali, brother of victim Shamsun Nahar, filed a murder case accusing Abdul Karim, Sharmin Akhter Mukta, her brother Al Amin alias Jonny, 33, on Thursday night.
Police detained Abdul Karim and his third wife Sharmin, for interrogation. Moinul Islam Officer-in-Charge Ramna Police Station said they were shown arrested after the case was filed.
Police, in their primary investigation, said that the murder of the mother and son was caused over family dispute. Family sources also echoed the same opinion, saying that it was a planned incident and complication between husband and three wives might be behind the incident.
Police suspect that the assassination was carried out by a tenant and more than one person may have taken part in the killings mission.
Sources with the detective branch of police said, the issue of marriage, family relations and property sharing were the main problems in the family.
Family members said Karim was engaged primarily in kitchen market business. He also had other businesses and owned three six-storied buildings in Kakrail and adjacent areas. He also had purchased land in in Joydevpur and Rangamati, said the sources.
Sohel Mahmud, the doctor conducting the autopsy, said Shamsunnahar was stabbed on the chest with a sharp knife which damaged her lungs. Her son Shaon was also stabbed on the chest with a knife. After the autopsy, the bodies were handed over to the relatives.
Ashraf Ali complained that his sister had received death threats earlier. Few days ago, Shamsun Nahar wanted to file a general dairy against Mukta, he said. Ashraf mentioned that there was a dispute ongoing over Abdul Karims recent marriage. After divorce with his second wife, Karim married a third time a few months ago and began living separately with his new wife, said police. The police are also looking for his second wife. Locals alleged that a few days ago Abdul Karims third wife Sharmin and his brother went to the house to threaten and beat Karims first wife.
Two other sons of Shamsuranahar live abroad. Her body will be kept in Birdem hospital and the funeral and burial will take place after the return of her sons, said family sources.
On Wednesday, Shamsun Nahar, 40 and her son Shawon, 22, were found dead in a flat of a multi-storey building in the citys Kakrail area. When asked to comment on the incidents of double murder and concern of the people, Dhaka University Law Department Associate Professor Hafizur Rahman Karzon said that modern lifestyle and technology are changing our social and family relationships and causing moral decay. People in the society are gradually becoming intolerant, even within their families. Because of modern communication tools like mobile phones, people are able to form many different types of relationships and expectations are changing, he said.
The types of relationships that were seen 20 or 25 years ago do not exist in the same form anymore, the law professor said. With the changes in the society, peoples lifestyle is also changing. There is a gradual social decay that is, in its extreme, triggering such violent incidents and other social problems, Hafizur Rahman Karzon added.
