Family feud behind Kakrail murders
The murders of a woman and her teenage son in the capital's Karail were committed over family feud and properties, investigators said yesterday.
The information came following the primary interrogation of two arrestees -- her husband Abdul Karim and his third wife Sharmin Akter Mukta.
The slain woman, Shamsun Nahar, 46, was the first wife of Karim. She and their son Sajjadul Karim, aged around 17, were found hacked to death in their Kakrail house on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court remanded the two arrestees for six days each, said Kazi Mainul Islam, officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station.
A third accused, Al Amin Jony, brother of Abdul Karim's third wife Mukta, is still on the run, he said.
Abdul Karim is a businessman and film director-producer, said police.
A brother of the slain woman, Ashraf Ali, filed the murder case with the police station accusing three named persons -- Karim, Mukta, and Jony -- and several other unidentified people.
In the case, the complainant said witnesses saw Jony and some other unidentified people fleeing his sister's house after hearing screams from it around 6:00pm on that day.
He told The Daily Star that the family feud started after Abdul Karim married for a second time around 21 years ago. His sister was not aware of it until his second wife gave birth to a baby son, he added.
The situation got worse when she came to know around eight months ago that Abdul Karim married a third wife, Mukta, he said.
“A few months ago, Mukta came to Nahar's house and beat her up for obtaining his sister's properties,” alleged Ashraf.
Moreover, instigated by Karim, Mukta kept threatening her, he said.
Nahar wanted to file a general diary a week ago, but she refrained from doing so thinking of Karim's reaction and her security, he added.
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