Staff Reporter :
Nazma Akter, arrested in connection with the murder of five members of a family in Narayanganj, was placed on a five-day remand on Tuesday.
Police on Monday night arrested Nazma Akter, wife of Shahjahan, another accused in the case from Darmuda area of Shariatpur district. She was later taken to Naranyanganj and handed over to the detective branch (DB) of police.
Seeking a ten-day remand, the plainclothes police on Tuesday produced Nazma Akter before the court of Narayanganj judicial magistrate Ashek Imam.
The court granted five days remand for interrogating her.
Nazma Akter told the court that she had given loan money to Taslima.
“Taslima didn’t return my money. But it doesn’t mean that I have killed her,” Nazma claimed.
On Saturday night, the five members of the family — Taslima Begum, 35, wife of Shafiqul Islam, a private car driver in capital Dhaka, their children Sumaiya, 5, Shantu, 10, Taslima’s brother Morshedul, 22, and Lamia, 25, — were hacked to death at their Baburail residence in Narayanganj.
The family members were the residents of a rented house in Baburail area.
Earlier, police detained six persons, including Shafiqul’s nephew Mahfuz. Mahfuz is now on a seven-day remand. The rest detained five persons were released later.
Shafiqul Islam, husband of deceased Taslima Begum, filed the case against Nazma Akter, Shahjahan, Badal Bahadur, Badsha and some unidentified miscreants with Narayanganj Sadar Police Station on Sunday.
When contacted Superintendent of police of Narayanganj Khandakar Mahid Uddin said in the compliant Shafiqul Islam mentioned the names of Nazma Akter, Shahjahan, Badal Bahadur and Badshah in the case, they are examining and reexamining information.
“A family feud and money could be the reasons behind the murders. The victims possibly knew the killers. Nothing from the flat had been stolen or been damaged,” he told The New Nation on Tuesday night.
The police super said that they had launched massive drive to net the other accused.
Shafiqul Islam mentioned in the case that his wife Taslima had taken a loan of around Tk 12 lakh from Nazma and Shahjahan.
“As my wife failed to repay the loan, they used to issue threat to her (Taslima). Even they issued threat to kill all of my family members,” he mentioned in the case.
According to Narayanganj General (Victoria) Hospital, the culprits beat the five with heavy substance indiscriminately on the upper parts of their bodies.
Mamunur Rashid Mandol, Officer-in-Charge of Detective Branch of Narayaganj police claimed that some progress had been made in the investigation.
“Nazma has already gave some important information in this connection. We are expecting that details about the murder will come to light soon,” he told this reporter.
He added the arrested Mahfuz has already confessed to the law enforcers about his involvement in the murder.
