Dhanmondi Murders: House help confesses to killing both women
The house help, who was arrested on Sunday night in the Dhanmondi double murder case, killed the elderly woman and another domestic worker in the house as the duo did not allow her to leave, police said.
Police disclosed the information after Surovi Akhter Nahida (19) confessed her involvement in the murders during primary interrogation yesterday, three days after the killings.
During primary interrogation, Surovi told police that she killed Afroza Begum (65) and Bithi (17) as they stopped her from leaving the flat after she told them she did not want to work there, Abdulla Hill Kafi, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Dhanmondi zone), said.
Surovi also said she took a knife from the kitchen and slit Bithi’s throat in the guestroom, later stabbing her in the chest too, the police official told The Daily Star.
Later, she also slit Afroza’s throat in another room and stabbed her several times, leaving her dead on the spot.
Afroza and Bithi attempted to confine her in a room and did not allow her to leave the house until Atikul Haque Bachchu’s arrival, the ADC quoted Surovi. Bachchu, bodyguard of Afroza’s son-in-law Kazi Monir Uddin, apparently brought Surovi to the house.
After the murders, she took a mobile phone from the house and left, said Abdul Latif, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station.
On the day of the incident, Bachchu brought Surovi to the house around 3:30pm and left around 5:30pm for work, police said.
Surovi said she first met Bachchu on October 26 and maintained regular communication with him since then.
Bachchu, who also lives in a room of the flat, allegedly sexually harassed her on the day of the murders, Surovi claimed during primary interrogation.
However, Bachchu denied the allegation during interrogation.
Police arrested Surovi from Dhaka’s Agargaon area yesterday. Dilruba Sultana, daughter of Afroza, filed the case with Dhanmondi Police Station against five people including Bachchu and Surovi.
The other accused are: security guard Nuruzzaman, caretaker Belal and one Prince.
Meanwhile, the case was transferred to Detective Branch of Police from the Dhanmondi Police Station on Sunday night.
Afroza Begum, deputy managing director of Creative Group, and her domestic help Bithi, were found dead in a flat on the fourth floor of a building on Road 28 in Dhanmondi on Friday.
Morgue sources said there were multiple stab marks on Afroza’s belly, chest and back while Bithi had stab marks on her chest.
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