Threat to withdraw case

Family members of a slain expatriate alleged that the prime accused is threatening them to withdraw the murder case that they filed with Sarishabari Police Station.

Victim Lili Akter's husband Imam Ali made the allegation at a press conference at his village Charsarishabari on Sunday.

Lili, an expatriate to Italy, was killed on January 11 allegedly by her nephew Nazmul Hassan Sumon, 23, son of the victim's elder brother Joynal Abedin of Satpua area in Jamalpur town.

Demanding Sumon's immediate arrest, Imam said since filing of the case they are under pressure by the accused to withdraw the case.

Imam said Lili returned home from Italy on January 1 and went along with her family members to her cousin's house in Satpua area on January 11.

Sumon went to that house and put pressure on Lili to return 10 decimals of land in the area that she bought from Joynal in 2010, Imam added.

As she refused, an angry Sumon went out of the house after an altercation with his aunt over the issue, Imam said.

Sumon stabbed to death Lili in front of TDC Primary School while she along with her family members was returning home around 7:00pm, he added.

Imam filed a murder case accusing Sumon and three to four unnamed people with Sarishabari Police Station in this regard the following day.

Officer-in-Charge of the police station Rezaul Islam Khan said they are conducting drives to arrest the prime accused in the case.