A Sunamganj court on Sunday placed the accused pharmacy owner and two others on eight-day remand each for gang raping a woman, killing her and later slicing her body into pieces to hide their crime.

Judicial Magistrate Abdur Rahim passed the order after Inspector (CID) Liton Dewan, investigation officer in the case produced the accused before court and sought 10-days in remand for each.

After the court granted the remand, accused pharmacy owner Jitesh Chandra Gop,30, Anjit Chandra Gop,38, and Ashit Gop, 36 were taken under Criminal Investigation Department’s custody, said Sunamganj court Inspector Md Badrul Alam Talukdar.

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On February 17, six body parts of Shahnaz Parvin Jyotsna,35, wife of an expatriate,  were recovered from the pharmacy named Ovi Medical Hall in Jagannathpur municipality area in Sunamganj.

The same day, a case was filed at Jagannathpur police station against Jitesh following a complaint lodged by Shahnaz’s brother Helal Ahmed.

On February 18, CID arrested the three accused from Dhaka and Sunamganj.

During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed to killing Shahnaz after rape and then cutting her body into pieces to hide their crime, said CID.

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According to the accused, Shahnaz, mother of three children, had a good relationship with Jitesh as she used to buy most of her family’s medicines from his pharmacy.

On Wednesday afternoon, Shahnaz went to Jitesh’s pharmacy as he assured her of suggesting some medicines for her confidential medical issues.

He kept her waiting in the room behind the shop and later with the help of two more shop owners- Anjit and Ashit -made her unconscious by swallowing sleeping pills.

They raped her in the late hours of night and strangled her to death when Shahnaz said she will inform her family about the incident.

Later they cut her body into six pieces with a sharp knife and packed those in boxes.

They were planning to dump the boxes into a pond, said CID.