Missing NGO worker found buried
She was killed by borrowers, claim police
Police recovered the decomposed body of a female NGO worker buried in Kabirpur area of Ashulia under Savar upazila on Wednesday night, seven days after she had gone missing.
Police claimed she was murdered by her borrowers.
The deceased -- Sabina Akter Urmi, 30, daughter of Abdur Rahman of Raghunathpur village in Gaibandha -- used to work as a field worker of non-government organisation (NGO) Association for Social Advancement (ASA) and live in Kabirpur area with her husband Jahid Hassan.
On Thursday (October 12), Sabina left office to collect payment from borrowers but she did not return to office afterwards, police said.
Finding no trace of her, the ASA authorities filed a general dairy (GD) with Ashulia Police Station that night.
Police then started investigation. By tracking her location from call list on her mobile phone, police found that she was staying at one Moslem Uddin's house at Kabirpur Dewanpara, said Asraful Alam, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, also the investigation officer.
On Wednesday, police detained Moslem Uddin, 38, and his wife Razia Akter, 35 -- borrowers of ASA -- for interrogation, said Asraful.
During primary interrogation, the couple admitted that they had killed Sabina and buried the body in the area -- around a kilometre away from the house, claimed the SI.
Later, police exhumed Sabina's decomposed body from there around 11:00pm, said the SI, adding that the body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Moslem and Razia had withdrawn nearly Tk 1 lakh from ASA on condition of repaying the money on weekly basis.
As Sabina went to collect the money on that day, Moslem and his aides had killed her by strangling, said police.
The body was first kept in a plastic container and was later buried in the secluded place, said the police official, quoting Moslem.
They also looted nearly Tk 2 lakh that Sabina collected from other borrowers.
Abdul Awal, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station, said they were trying to arrest the other accused involved in the killing.