Another suspect in Japanese woman 'murder' arrested

Police have arrested another accused in a case filed for the "murder” and secret burial of Japanese woman Hiroe Miyata in October.

HM Jakir Patwari Ratan, a business partner of Miyata, was held from Benapole border area in Jessore. He was on the run, said Officer-in-Charge of Uttara East Police Station Abu Bakar Siddique yesterday.

Ratan was among the six accused in the case filed by the police station.

The five others, who were arrested in late November, are now in jail on completion of a four-day police remand.

According to the case statement, Miyata was "killed” on October 29 allegedly by her business partners. She was later buried in an Uttara graveyard. But the five accused denied killing her.

The incident surfaced after an official of Japanese embassy in Dhaka complained about her missing in a general diary lodged with Uttara East police on November 19.

Forensic doctors at Dhaka Medical College conducted an autopsy on Miyata, whose body was exhumed on November 27 following a court order, but found no injury marks as the body was decomposed.

Police are now waiting for the viscera report to determine the reason of Miyata's death.