Staff Reporter :
A house wife was reportedly strangled to death by her husband as her family could not pay the dowry money in the city’s Uttarkhan area on Friday night.
The deceased has been identified as Munni Akter, wife of Rubel Mia, police said.
Quoting victim’s relatives, Uttarkhan Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Tapan Sarkar said, “Munni was allegedly tortured by her husband Rubel Mia for dowry for the two years and he killed Munni centering an altercation as her family could not pay the dowry money.”
At least five injury marks were found at the neck, forehead, hands and stomachs of the body, the police official said.
“Munni got married with Rubel about two years ago and they had a baby girl. Rubel sent Munni forcibly to her father’s house in Gazipur to take dowry money on October 17 and brought her to his rented house in the city after holding arbitration in this connection at his father-in-law’s house,” he said.
He killed Munni on Friday night after taking her back at his house in Uttarkhan on Friday evening, the police official said.
Munni’s father Abdul Motaleb filed a case with the police station in this connection, he said.
Rubel had gone into hiding after the incident and police are trying to arrest him, the OC said.
Her body has been sent at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) morgue, he said.
