Daughter of late journo Akhtarul murdered
Police recovered the body of Fahmida Akhtar from inside her bedroom in the capital's Rampura yesterday. She was the daughter of late journalist Akhtarul Alam who served as the acting editor of the Daily Ittefaq.
Fahmida lived alone on the fourth floor of a six-storey building at Mahanagar Project.
On information, police rushed there and sent her body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy. They found her hands and legs tied with pieces of clothes.
Fahmida was strangled to death and her both hands bore marks of scratches. Black pepper powder was also found on her face and eyes, morgue sources said.
Abdul Ali, one of her neighbours, said the body was covered in a blanket and lying on the floor with her face down in the bedroom.
“Yesterday morning, Fahmida's domestic help Sabiha Begum pressed the doorbell of the flat for around 10 minutes but did not get any response. She didn't get any response from inside the flat the previous night as well,” he told The Daily Star.
Sabiha informed Ali of the matter. Ali then called the building's security guard Abdur Rouf.
The door was shut, but not locked from inside. They found the body and saw the almirah was open around 10:15am. Clothes were lying scattered on the floor.
Rezwan-ul-Alam, elder brother of Fahmida, told this correspondent that her sister used to live in one flat and rented out another. She owned both the flats on the floor. Her husband Golam Rabbani works at a private firm in Bahrain. Siratul Mostaqin, 20, the couple's only son, is staying in the United States for study.
“My sister had no enemy,” Alam added. He filed a murder case with Rampura Police Station against unknown persons.
Fahmida would seldom go out of the house. She didn't open the door to strangers, said residents of the building.
Mahbubur Rahman Tarafder, officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station, said they detained Sabiha and Rouf for interrogation.
The motive behind the murder could not be ascertained immediately but police suspected that the murder might have taken place sometime on Thursday. An investigation into the incident was underway in this regard, police said.
The security guard told reporters that he didn't see any stranger entering the house on Thursday night while Sabiha said she last worked at Fahmida's house on Wednesday night.
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