Staff Reporter :
Police have arrested the wife of Md Giasuddin as the prime suspect in his murder and ordered DNA tests after the initial investigation yielded few clues about the crime.
Police recovered the body of Md Giasuddin, 35, a jhut trader, around 11:30pm from inside his apartment at Block-C in the Jhutpatti neighbourhood of the capital’s Mirpur area on Sunday night.Masked assailants reportedly beat and stabbed him to death at his residence in front of his wife.
“Police detained her as a prime suspect for the killing because the victim’s brothers and sister-in-law blamed her for allegedly continuing an extra-marital affair even after marriage,” Salahuddin Khan, officer-in-charge of Mirpur model police station, told The New Nation yesterday.
“We found scratch marks and bite injuries on the victim’s body and that is why we sent samples from the victim and his wife to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for DNA tests,” he said.
Kazi Saifuddin, lecturer of forensic department of Dhaka Medical College (DMC), conducted the autopsy of Giasuddin. According to forensic department sources, some tissue matter and teeth were collected from the victim’s remains while nails and blood collected from the victim’s wife, Lavli, were sent for DNA tests.
The department collected the samples because Sub-Inspector (SI) Arifur Rahman of Mirpur model police station, who prepared the FIR report, recommended a DNA test be conducted in the case.
According to police sources, Lavli, while being interrogated, said some people came to the apartment and attacked him after tying her up.
The attackers beat Giasuddin up and stabbed him before leaving the apartment. He was later taken to DMCH where the duty doctors declared him dead around 12:30am yesterday.
Investigators said they had received contradictory statements from Lavli and the two children.
Eleven-year-old Soumik, elder daughter of the victim, told law enforcers she saw four people in their flat that night. But five-year-old younger son of the victim, Nihan, said that he saw two people in the flat.
“The statements do not clarify things,” Salahuddin said.
“We do not have a clear idea about why the killers did not tie the hands and feet of the children,” Salahuddin added.
When contacted, Moinul Islam, inspector (investigation) of Mirpur police station said that police were looking into three possible scenarios – a family feud, enmity over the jhut trade and a dispute over the distribution of land or wealth.
