Staff Reporter :
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of Police in a drive on Friday arrested two accused in connection with the murder of Selim Pramanik.
The 32-year old man was burn to death on charge of blackmailing a woman centering an extra-marital affair.
The brutal killing was took place when he went to meet the woman as per prior plan to marry her in his father’s residence at Barokol village in Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura district on February 4.
The arrested persons were identified as Abdur Rahman (50) and his daughter Rupali Begum (25), both residents of the same village, reports our Bogura Correspondent quoting police.
They confessed the brutal killing under the section 164 of CrPC when they were produced before a Bogura court on Saturday afternoon.
They also burnt Selim after killing in the paddy field in a remote area as nobody identify him, Police said.
During primary interrogation, the two admitted to killing Selim, said Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan, Superintendent of Police of Bogura.
Quoting Rupali and her father, the SP said, “Rupali’s husband Ekramul had been living in Saudi Arabia for work for the last year and half. Selim and Rupali were in a relationship during that time. Later on, Selim insisted that Rupali marry him, but she did not agree.”
Selim then began to blackmail her with hidden camera footage of the two being intimate, he added.
Later, Rupali confided in her father, and the two plotted to kill Selim, said the SP.
As part of their plan, Rupali agreed to marry him and called Selim to meet her at her friend’s house at Beruj village.
On February 4, around 6:30pm, Selim went near a paddy field at Barokol village to meet Rupali, where she handed him over to her father and three other associates.
Later, they tied up Selim’s hands and legs with scotch tape, slit his throat with a knife and set him on fire, hoping that no one would recognise him, said the SP.
Selim Pramanik was burned for blackmailing Rupali Begum over an extra-marital affair after he was called to a paddy field in Barokol village in Dupchanchia, another police source said.
Police recovered Selim’s burnt and throat-slit body from a forested area in another village named Beruj in the same upazila around 3:00pm on February 5.
The locals could not initially recognise the body. Selim’s father was able to identify him later, police said in a press conference at the Bogura Police Superintendent’s office on Saturday morning.
Law enforcers also recovered Selim’s mobile phone and wallet, and a knife from the spot, they said.
Selim’s father filed a case against unknown miscreants on February 5, he said.
