No headway yet in Sylhet gas official murder
Police are yet to unearth the mystery behind the killing of the gas official Anwara Begum Chowdhury.
The decomposed body of the middle-aged official of the state-run Jalalabad Gas was recovered from her house on Thursday evening.
However, a 7-member team from CID, Dhaka visited the spot on Saturday. They inspected the house for over five hours and collected some evidence.
Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Rezaul Karim told this correspondent that a team from the 'Crime Scene' unit at the CID headquarters reached Sylhet Friday night.
They collected the fingerprints and some other significant 'alamats' from the bedroom, wherefrom the body was recovered. “Those may help unearth the mystery,” Rezaul said.
He termed it a planned murder. “But it is not possible to say anything so early regarding the motive of the killing," the top official said hinting it as a murder by some known people of the deceased.
The CID team headed by Senior ASP Khurshid Jahan Haque collected the finger prints and recovered a 18-inch long blood stained knife, hairs of the deceased and a few other articles from the room. They also recovered two cell phone sims from the bedroom of the victim.
Asked if the murder had any link with the killing of another employee of the same company months ago, the police official declined to remark at the moment.
Jalalabad Gas CBA president Abu Taher was killed in broad daylight on 10 June this year over feuds in the ruling party backed trade union.
Meanwhile, the namaj-e-janaza of Anwara Chowdhury,56, was held after Asar prayers yesterday as her husband Shamsul Abedin, son Touhidul Abedin and daughter Fahmida Abedin came to Sylhet from UK Saturday afternoon. The other son Toufiqul Abedin came from USA yesterday.
The body was buried at the graveyard attached to the shrine of Hajrat Shah Jalal (RA) in the city.
Earlier, Anwara's body was handed over to the family on Friday after post mortem at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital.
There were marks of injuries on the thigh and in abdomen while a piece of cloth was found on her mouth. The killers hacked her to death and then stabbed on different parts of the body, police and witnesses said.
Anwara's decomposed body was recovered from her house at the city's Lamabazar Thursday evening. She was a freedom fighter in Sector-4.
Family and gas officials said Anwara attended her last office December 2. She was scheduled to join a training programme in the capital from December 5. Finding no trace for two days, the family members, including her younger brother went to the house Thursday afternoon. They found bad odour coming out from inside the house while it was under lock and key.
Being informed, police reached the scene, broke open the door and recovered the body.
Family sources said, she used to stay alone on the first floor of the 4-storied building. Only a housemaid lived with her as her husband was staying abroad.
The housemaid went into hiding after the incident.
Victim's husband Shamsul Abedin filed a murder case with Sylhet Kotwali police station yesterday afternoon.
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