Staff Reporter :
Police claimed that a family feud was the cause of the murder of a woman inside a running bus in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital on September 9.
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) announced the findings within a week of the sensational incident.
The murder was motivated by a family feud, Banaj Kumar Majumder, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and PBI Chief, said this in a press conference at PBI Headquarters in the city’s Dhanmondi on Saturday morning.
According to the agreement, the driver would be paid Tk 10,000 for the murder, the DIG said.
The investors have arrested three suspects and seized the bus, arrested Jarina’s son-in-law Noor Islam and Noor’s mother Amena Begum in connection with the incident.
They have also detained a man named Swapan, who acted as the matchmaker for the marriage between Noor and Jarina’s daughter Rosina.
The bus has been found, but police are still looking for four suspects, including the driver and his assistant.
Jarina and her father came from Sirajganj to visit her daughter and son-in-law in Ashulia on Friday 7.
Akbar and Jarina boarded the bus for Tangail at Ashulia’s Unique Bus Stand on their way home on the fateful evening.
Akbar said that once the bus departed, a group of people began to beat him and snatched his mobile phone and money.
The bus then began heading back to Ashulia and dumped him by Ashulia Bridge.
He reported the matter to a police patrol and his daughter’s body was found about a kilometre away near the Moragang area.
Jarina Khatun, 45, was killed on board a bus headed from Ashulia to Tangail on the evening of November 9. Her father Akbar Ali Mandul, 70, had been with her and was thrown from the same bus.
Police claimed that a family feud was the cause of the murder of a woman inside a running bus in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital on September 9.
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) announced the findings within a week of the sensational incident.
The murder was motivated by a family feud, Banaj Kumar Majumder, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and PBI Chief, said this in a press conference at PBI Headquarters in the city’s Dhanmondi on Saturday morning.
According to the agreement, the driver would be paid Tk 10,000 for the murder, the DIG said.
The investors have arrested three suspects and seized the bus, arrested Jarina’s son-in-law Noor Islam and Noor’s mother Amena Begum in connection with the incident.
They have also detained a man named Swapan, who acted as the matchmaker for the marriage between Noor and Jarina’s daughter Rosina.
The bus has been found, but police are still looking for four suspects, including the driver and his assistant.
Jarina and her father came from Sirajganj to visit her daughter and son-in-law in Ashulia on Friday 7.
Akbar and Jarina boarded the bus for Tangail at Ashulia’s Unique Bus Stand on their way home on the fateful evening.
Akbar said that once the bus departed, a group of people began to beat him and snatched his mobile phone and money.
The bus then began heading back to Ashulia and dumped him by Ashulia Bridge.
He reported the matter to a police patrol and his daughter’s body was found about a kilometre away near the Moragang area.
Jarina Khatun, 45, was killed on board a bus headed from Ashulia to Tangail on the evening of November 9. Her father Akbar Ali Mandul, 70, had been with her and was thrown from the same bus.
