United News of Bangladesh

Police recovered the bodies of two women from Purba Shibram village in Sundarganj Upazila of Gaibandha on Sunday night. Police said three people, including the husband of one of the victims, have been arrested in connection with one of the deaths. One of the victims was identified as Ayesha Siddika, daughter of Sirajul Islam of Purba Shibram village. She married Mosharraf Hossain, an expatriate from a neighboring village, four years ago. Her father said Ayesha recently learned that her brother-in-law's wife was involved in an extramarital affair. Since she obstructed it, members of her in-laws' house became agitated. Sirajul Islam alleged that his daughter was strangled inside her room on Sunday midnight and her body was later hung from a ceiling beam. Sirajul also alleged that when he went to Sundarganj Police Station to file a case, police did not accept it and instead advised him to settle the matter through mediation. In a separate incident in the same village, Abdul Awal Khan allegedly killed his wife, Sajeda Begum, following a family dispute and later hung her body. Police said injury marks were found on different parts of her body. Following a complaint filed by Sajeda's father, Sahib Uddin, police arrested three people, including Awal Khan. Shahin Mohammad Amanullah, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sundarganj Police Station confirmed the incidents on Monday morning. He said the bodies were sent to Gaibandha Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsies.

A housemaid and an anonymous woman's dead bodies were recovered on Saturday from city's Newmarket and Sabujbagh police station areas. One of the deceased was identified as Laily Aktar, 15, from New Market and another was an anonymous woman of 35 in Sabujbagh. Both the bodies were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy, said police. Also read: Husband arrested after woman found dead in launch Sub-Inspector of New Market police station Atikul Bishwash Mukul said house owner Farzana Islam, a teacher of Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad Public School and College, has been arrested in the case of house maid Laily’s death. According to police, Laily’s dead body was recovered on Saturday afternoon from  Farzana Islam’s apartment in teacher’s residential building located inside BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) Headquarters. Laily had been working in that house since six months. Her body had several injury marks. The actual cause of the death could be identified after the autopsy, said SI Atikul. Also read: Young woman found dead in Patuakhali hotel Laily’s family claims she was employed in Farzana’s house as a domestic help eight months ago at thousand Taka per month salary. They haven’t seen her after that until they found the dead body yesterday in the hospital morgue. Layla’s mother said her daughter’s death wasn’t natural and demanded police to investigate the actual cause of death  Meanwhile Sabujbagh police station’s Sub-Inspector Priyotosh Chandra Dutta said an anonymous female’s throat-slit dead body was recovered on Saturday night from the third floor of a building in Shahibag bank colony area. Also read: Woman found dead in Cumilla She was wearing a blue torn dress and the body was wrapped in a rag, said police. If the body has been raped before murder, can be assured after the autopsy, SI Priyotosh said.