Wife, daughter of house owner held

Police yesterday arrested the Dakshin Khan house owner's wife and daughter for allegedly beating and killing their tenant on Thursday.

Saleh Ahmed, 65, his wife Rahima Begum, 55, and daughter Rokeya Akhter, 25, were arrested while police were looking for Saleh Ahmed's son Nur Alam, said Dakshin Khan police. 

They were accused in a case filed in connection with the death of their tenant Abdul Malek by Khadiza begum, the victim's wife.

In the case statement, Khadiza mentioned that Saleh and Nur were beating up her husband on Thursday morning with a broom and punching him when he fell to the ground senseless. Nur then sat on him and hit hard on his chest.

“As I was crying holding my husband, Rahima and Rokeya swooped and kept hitting us,” read the statement.

The altercation between Malek and Saleh began when the former put a vase of a medicinal herb at the doorway of his rented flat in Ashkona area of Uttara.

Saleh and his son threw the vase away and beat Malek, 45, with a broom and punched him on the chest and face.

Malek, who had a heart condition, collapsed on the ground and was pronounced dead at a hospital.