Alleged killer of Sylhet gas official remanded
Anwara Abedin Chowdhury
The young man, arrested in connection with the killing of gas official Anwara Abedin Chowdhury, was placed on a three-day remand yesterday.
Earlier he gave his confessional statement before a magistrate here on Saturday.
Officer-in-charge of Sylhet Kotwali police station Khondaker Nawroz Ahmed, also the investigation officer of the sensational case said judicial magistrate Abdul Momen recorded his confessional statement.
The arrestee, a tenant of the victim, claimed that he met Anwara only two months ago and they developed an intimate relationship.
Heated exchange of words over a trifling matter had led to the murder, claimed Osman Gani in the confessional statement. He used a machete for killing the woman, police said quoting Osman.
'The lady hurled abusive words at me when I refused to go to the capital with her,' Osman said adding that it made him angry.
“I slapped her first and then gave blows, but she became more furious using rough words again. At this, I could not hold myself and hit her with the sharp weapon severely,” Osman claimed, said police.
However, in a sharp reaction to Osman's statement, Shamsul Abedin, husband of the deceased, accused police of playing foul.
“It is nothing but a ploy to save the killers”, he said demanding proper steps to unearth the mystery with the help of a powerful team of officials other than Sylhet metropolitan police.
Decomposed body of Anwara Abedin Chowdhury, manager (purchase) of the state-run Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution Company was recovered from her house in the city's Lamabazar area on December 9 evening.
Police arrested Osman Gani, a tenant of the victim, from his village home at Jonigaon in Dakshin Sunamganj upazila on December 16 morning and recovered a laptop and a movie camera of the deceased from his possession.
Meanwhile, the family members at a press conference yesterday alleged that police were engaged in foul play with the matter.
They managed the lone arrestee for giving fictitious statement before the magistrate in the name of confessional statement under Section 164, they said.
In the written statement read out at the press conference, Shamsul Abedin termed it an attempt to save the killers.
They alleged that, since the recovery of the body, the law enforcers were pressing the family members not to talk with the mediamen for unknown reasons.
Abedin said, a CID team from the capital on 11 December collected footprints of three people from the victim's room.
"But why the police here were now telling that there was only one killer", he questioned.
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