All it took is fingerprints

It was the fingerprints that helped the police identify an unclaimed body of a woman and eventually arrest her killer.

The body was found in the capital's Gulshan area on March 5, and kept at the Dhaka Medical College mortuary for over a week until police identified her by going through the national identity card database of the Election Commission.

According to the EC database, the victim is Kajolee Akhter Kajol, 24, of Santoshpur village in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.

After identifying Kajol, police contacted her family members and got her mobile number.

Yesterday, law enforcers arrested one Sujan Biswas in the capital's Dhanmondi area after locating his presence by tracking his mobile phone, police sources said.

Sujan, who claimed that he had a romantic affair with Kajol, admitted to stabbing her to death, said Abdul Ahad, additional deputy commissioner of Gulshan division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Being informed, her family received the body from the mortuary on March 17, said Abdul Ahad, the police official said.

 Sujan yesterday gave a confessional statement before a Dhaka court where he said he killed the woman because she had an illicit relationship with another man and left the body in Gulshan, Ahad said.

 The DMP official claimed that it was the first time that the police identified an unclaimed body and arrest the killer by matching fingerprints.