UNB, Rajshahi :
A 23-year-old woman was found dead in a hotel room in Rajshahi city early Monday.
The deceased was identified as Joynab Begum, of Natore district.
Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Rajpara police station, said the woman checked into the Dream Heaven Hotel in the city with a man named Mizan, 27, providing what turned out to be a false information on Sunday morning.
The two had identified themselves as husband and wife. Even the permanent address they provided was false. Around 1.30 pm, the man went out of the hotel, said the OC.
Around 12 am, police had to be called in by the hotel staff to break open the door of the room they took, after not hearing from the woman all day. Meanwhile the man had not returned all day. Inside, they found the body lying on the bed.
Police suspect the woman was strangled to death. There is just one obvious suspect.
“Efforts are on to arrest the man she came with,” said the OC.
