Husband arrested in Jessore

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the ex-husband of a slain saleswoman of a boutique shop from a hotel in Jessore on Tuesday night, two days after he allegedly stabbed his wife to death in the capital's Mohammadpur.

Sabuj Sheikh, 29, was held from the residential hotel around 8:10pm, said Maj Mohammad Ali, acting commanding officer of Rab-2, at a press briefing at its headquarters in Agargaon yesterday.

“After the killing, Sabuj first hid in Paltan and then went to Chittagong. From there, Sabuj came to Jessore to escape to India,” said Mohammad Ali, adding that Sabuj had admitted to the killing during primary interrogation.

On Sunday, Rokhsana Akhter Tumpa, 26, a saleswoman at the boutique shop, “Nabba”, on Razia Sultana road, was allegedly stabbed to death by Sabuj around 10:30am following an altercation.

Tumpa's uncle Zakir Hossain told The Daily Star that the couple got married around seven years back.

Later, Tumpa came to know that Sabuj was also married to another woman and they had two children. Therefore, she got separated. Meanwhile, relatives intervened and the duo started their conjugal life again, he said. 

But things started to worsen gradually.    

As a result, around five months back, Tumpa divorced Sabuj. But Sabuj kept on disturbing her every now and then, he added. 

On Sunday morning, Sabuj went to the shop with a kitchen knife and stabbed Tumpa, said Maj Mohammad Ali. “It apparently seems that the murder was preplanned.”

Morgue sources also said they found three stab marks on Tumpa's body and she died due to bleeding profusely.