Staff Reporter :
Police have finally unearthed the mystery behind the horrific murder of three members of a family, including a retired bank official at Dilalpur area in Pabna district town.
On Saturday night, police arrested victim’s adopted son Tanvir Hossain, the prime suspect in the brutal murders from Haripur village of Naogaon district.
Accused Tanvir is the son of one late Hatem Ali of Haripur village under Mohadevpur upazila of the district. But killer Tanvir stayed in Pabna town, as he was an imam of a local mosque.
Following his arrest, weapon used to commit the murders, looted jewelries and cash were recovered from Tanvir’s possession. Pabna’s Police Super Sheikh Rafiqul Islam held a press conference over the triple murders at Pabna Police Lines Auditorium on Sunday afternoon.
The Police Super said that earlier on May 31, a retired Bank official Abdul Jabbar, his wife Summa Khatun, and their 12-year-old adopted daughter Sanjida were found murdered inside their Dilalpur rented house.
Both Abdul Jabbar and his wife Summa Khatun were a childless couple. They brought Sanjida when she was just a one-day-old girl child. Sanjida also became 12-year-old. They lived in a two-storeyed rented house with Sanjida at Dilalpur, adjacent to the Fire Service and Civil Defence office, of Pabna town, police super added.
Jabbar and his wife got acquainted with the nearby Fire Service mosque’s imam Tanvir Hossain one and a half years ago. Being pleased at the behaviour of Tanvir, the couple started treating him like their own son. Tanvir became so closed to them that the slain Abdul Jabbar used to take him to banks and post office for transactions. Tanvir also used to call them father and mother.
But Tanvir could not check his greed. That’s why he started hatching a plan to grab the cash and jewelries of the couple. At one stage, he planned to murder all the members of the family, SP added.
“According to the plan, Tanvir left Pabna town for his village home at Mohadevpur in Naogaon district on May 29 taking leave from the mosque. But, before the expiry of his leave, he came back to Pabna town without informing others and entered the house of Abdul Jabbar secretly, instead of the mosque at night on May 31,” said Sheikh Rafiqul Islam.
The Pabna police super said, “At about 2 o’clock night, Tanvir hacked Abdul Jabbar, his wife Summa Khatun and their daughter Sanjida to death when they were sleeping. He also got confirmed about the death hitting his victims on the heads with a wooden bar. Then he left the house with cash Tk 2 lakh, one lakh Indian rupee and gold ornaments.”
After the incident victim Abdul Jabbar’s younger brother Abdul Kader filed a murder case with the Sadar Police Station implicating unknown accused for the triple murder.
