Man held for 'filicide'
Police arrested a man from Nagarpur upazila of the district yesterday in connection with a case filed against him for killing his three-month-old daughter last year.
The arrestee is Sohel Rana, 26, son of Wazed Ali of Agdighulia village in Bharra union.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team arrested Sohel from Belkuhi in Sirajganj in the morning. He was sent to jail through a Tangail court in the afternoon, said Officer-in-Charge of Nagarpur Police Station Jahirul Islam.
Police said Sohel killed his baby daughter Sumaiya by throwing her into an adjacent pond on October, 2016 after a quarrel with wife.
A day after the incident, his wife Yasmin Akter filed a murder case against him with Nagarpur Police Station, they added.
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