Female 'Pir' Murder: Police clueless about motive
Though a day has passed after the killing of so-called female “pir", police were still clueless about the motive behind the murder.
Police recovered the victim's slit-throat body from her tin-roofed house near the Martyrs' Graveyard in the capital's Mirpur on Sunday.
Masud Ahmed, deputy commissioner (Mirpur division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star yesterday that they came to know that there was a gold ring on the victim's finger. They did not get the ring after the murder.
“We are suspecting that someone killed her for the gold ring,” he said.
Selimuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Darussalam Police Station, said they were investigating the murder, giving top priority. Victim Nurjahan Begum, 72, of Noakhali, used to live alone in the house, he said.
Earlier, it was seen that the so-called “pir” and mazar-related people became a target of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Omar Ali, a city corporation staff, also a former president of the colony's arbitration (panchayat) committee, said Nurjahan used to live Hazrat Shah Ali Baghdadi Mazar, locally known as Mirpur Mazar, but started living in city colony area, owned by the city corporation, eight years ago.
Some city corporation employees and some other followers of the "pir" built a house for her in the colony. Her followers used to sit with her regularly, he said.
A murder case was filed.
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