Missing schoolgirl’s body recovered
Madaripur Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Saturday night recovered the decomposed body of a schoolgirl from a septic tank in Kalkini upazila, after nearly 11 months of her missing in February last year.
The victim, Murshida Akhter, 17, was daughter of Chan Mia Hawladar of Purba Boltla village in the upazila.
Sub Inspector of Madaripur DB police Torikul Islam said, based on confessional statement given by one Shahabuddin Akon, 25, son of Majid Akon of the village, they recovered Murshida's body from the septic tank at Shahabuddin's house around 11:00 pm on Saturday.
According to the case statement, following a love affair the marriage of Shahabuddin and Murshida was fixed last year.
Murshida left home to visit a doctor on February 17, 2020, and remained missing since then.
Failing to trace Murshida's whereabouts for long, her mother Mahinur Begum first filed a general dairy (GD) with Dasar Police Station on February 19 and later filed an abduction case against five people including Shahabuddin on March 4 the same year.
Meanwhile, due to slow progress Madaripur police transferred the case to DB police on December 16.
On December 31, Shahabuddin surrendered before a court that sent him to jail.
Later, the court granted a two-day remand for Shahabuddin after DB police applied for the remand.
During interrogation, Shahabuddin confessed that he killed Murshida and dumped her body in the septic tank of his house.
After two hours of frantic effort DB police recovered Murshida's decomposed body around 9:00pm on Saturday, police said, adding that also recovered a burqa and a vanity bag from the tank.
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