Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a person for hacking three of a family after a woman refused his indecent proposal in the capital’s Sanir Akhra area.
RAB at a briefing on Tuesday said it arrested Jahangir Alam, 42, from Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj on Monday night.
RAB legal and media wing assistant director Emran Khan said that Jahangir was resident of a house at Sanir Akhra, where he made an
indecent proposal to a woman living in the building. The landlord ousted him after the woman complained.
Jahangir was furious at the incident and continued to harass the woman.
He attacked the woman, her husband and daughter with a machete on Sunday night leaving them critically injured.
They were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and were undergoing treatment there.
The victim’s family filed a case with Jatrabari police station against Jahangir, prompting the law enforcers to conduct a raid in Siddhirganj area and arrest him.