Housewife beaten to death
A housewife was allegedly beaten to death at an apartment of Eastern Housing in city's Pallabi area on Thursday night.
The victim was identified as Fatema Rahman, 55, wife of Sheikh Fazlur Rahman.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Pallabi Police Station Abdul Maleq said they arrested three members of the apartment owners' association of the housing yesterday.
The arrestees were identified as Ebadur Rahman, 40, Khurshid Alam, 46, and Ashraful Islam, who were placed on a one-day remand to unearth the mystery of the death.
Family members of Fatema, who was also a cousin of former water resources minister Abdur Razzaque MP, alleged that the apartment owner entered the apartment along with members of the housing society and some hired goons at 9:00pm and asked them to vacate the flat immediately.
They alleged that both the sides were involved in an altercation as the tenant wanted more time to leave the apartment. At one stage, the association members beat up Fatema, her husband, two sons and a daughter.
The victim fell sick following the incident and was rushed to National Heart Foundation where she died.
On the other hand, housing society sources said Fatema died after she had suffered a cardiac arrest following the altercation.
They further said she did not pay the rent of the house for the last several months, adding that the apartment owner asked her family to leave the place but they did not pay any heed to their notice.
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