They are Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) Mukhlesur Rahman and constables Aleem and Munnaf of Savar Police Station.

On Sunday night, Mukhlesur Rahman along with four or five policemen in civil dress went to arrest Badsha Mia and his son Jewel against whom Montu Miah, a resident of Nikrail in Bongram, filed a case on June 16 accusing them of abducting his daughter Dishari Akhtar Tumpa.

Montu's daughter Dishari Akhtar Tumpa, 17, eloped with Badsha's son Jewel, 17, and they got married on June 14, locals said.

Not finding Badsha and Jewel in the house, Mukhles became furious and started questioning Badsha's mother Nayan Banu regarding whereabouts of them.

As Mukhles tried to enter the house, Nayan Banu, suspicious about the identity of police in civil dress, asked them not to enter. Mukhles started kicking Nayan Banu and kept beating her with the rifle butt. At one stage she fell down dead and the policemen fled away when the neighbours rushed in.

The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy at 11:00am yesterday.

Hundreds of aggrieved people from neighbouring villages thronged Nayan Banu's house and demanded exemplary punishment of the killer policemen.

Salauddin Nagri, TNO of Savar, pacified the demonstrating people by assuring them of justice.

Mukhles has been suspended and further action will be taken on receipt of the autopsy report, said Akhtaruzzaman, officer in charge of Savar Police Station.

“We had not locked horns with police. Being suspicious about the identity of police in civil dress, Nayan Banu refused to let the ASI enter the house. But they swooped on us and killed her on the spot,” said Momtaj Begum, 55, who was also injured in the police beating.

No case was filed with Savar Police Station regarding the incident as of filing of the report at 6:00pm.