Mymensingh
Woman found dead
Husband, second wife arrested
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Police yesterday recovered the body of a woman, who was murdered on Thursday at village Naghdora in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh.
The victim was identified as Aysha Akhtar, 23, wife of Manik Mia, a primary school teacher at Rampur in Tarakanda.
Police on Saturday arrested Manik, 28, an assistant teacher of Rampur Govt Primary School and his second wife Shilpi Akhtar, 22.Quoting family sources, Mazharul Haque, officer-in-charge of Tarakanda police station said Aysha went missing from her house on Thursday evening. Family members looked for Aysha everywhere, but found no trace of her. Ayshas father Alal Uddin informed police about the missing of his daughter the following day. Alal Uddin lodged a case with Tarakanda police station implicating six people, including Manik, Shilpi and her younger brother Quiyyum Mia.
Quiyyum is the main suspect in the killing, police sources said.
On Thursday night, Manik and Shilpi confessed to their involvement in the killing during police interrogation. They have killed the woman, put the body into a sack and buried it near Shilpis house at Naghdora village.
Police said Manik married Aysha in 2010. But, he soon developed an affair with Shilpi, his student, and married her later that year. Aysha had never accepted taking of second wife by her husband and that had led to a longstanding family feud.
As a sequel to the feud Aysha might have been killed, said the OC. Aysha had no issue, but Shilpi is the mother of a four-year-old boy, police said.
Following their confessional statement police rushed to the spot, recovered the body and sent it to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
