Police have arrested three individuals including the main accused in connection with the murder of a woman from Narail who was reportedly lured to Bagerhat on the pretext of marriage, strangled, and her body dumped in a pond with bricks tied to it.

The victim, Suraiya Sharmin Drishti, 33, was reportedly in a relationship with Saidur Rahman, 35, one of the arrested suspects. The other two arrestees are Azizur Rahman Nayan, 32, and Shahidur Rahman, 45, both residents of Joypur village in Fakirhat, Bagerhat.

Police arrested the suspects from different locations on Wednesday afternoon.

Body of missing woman recovered from Bagerhat pond

According to Fakirhat Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) SM Alamgir Kabir, Drishti had been in a relationship with Saidur Rahman for three years. On January 31, she travelled to Fakirhat to marry Saidur and stayed at the house of Azizur Rahman Nayan, her friend’s husband, where Saidur also arrived later that evening. However, the marriage could not take place that night as planned.

Drishti was strangled to death that night. Around 4 am on February 1, the suspects tied bricks to her body and dumped her in a pond in Joypur village under Nalda-Moubhog union, Fakirhat upazila.

Police recovered Drishti’s body on Tuesday after being alerted by locals.

Her mother had filed a general diary (GD) at Narail Sadar Police Station on February 1 after losing contact with her daughter. Drishti, an outsourced worker at Narail Sadar Hospital, was married to Mahfuzur Rahman and had a ten-year-old daughter.

Drishti’s mother later filed a murder case with Fakirhat Police Station, naming Saidur Rahman and Azizur Rahman as the accused.

OC Alamgir Kabir said that the suspects are being interrogated.