Husband, stepson among six arrested

Police yesterday arrested six people including the husband and step-son of a woman who was stabbed and burnt to death in her flat in Dhaka's Kafrul area on Sunday.

The arrestees are the husband Shajahan Sikder (50), his son SM Ashikur Rahman Nahid (27), Nahid's wife Jakia Sultana Airin (22), her father Askek Ullah (50) and mother Rokeya Begum (40), and Sakib (20).

Among them, Nahid was arrested from Uttarkhan area while the rest were held from Kafrul, Selimuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Kafrul Police Station, told The Daily Star.

A murder case was filed with Kafrul Police Station, accusing seven people, including the six arrestees.

On Sunday, police recovered the body of Shima Begum (31). Law enforcers said the woman used to live with her husband in a room, while her step-son and his wife stayed in another room on the sixth-floor of an under-construction 10-storey building.

Police suspect that she was stabbed and later burned to death. Morgue sources said most of her body was burnt, and there were several stab marks on her throat, neck and back.