Police yet to find clue
Police could not unearth any clue in the sensational murder of an aged housewife at Pallabi in the city as of yesterday evening.
Jabeda Khatun, 55, was strangled at her bedroom on Saturday morning.
The killers tried to divert the motive of the murder by setting fire to the bed where the body was lying.
Pallabi police suspected family feud behind the killing but the family of the deceased alleged that four girls, who live in the house by renting a room, might have killed Jabeda.
Police recovered the body from the house at Section-12 in Pallabi and sent it to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy on Saturday night.
After the post-mortem, morgue sources said she was strangled to death and a part of her left leg was burnt.
Quoting Jabeda's daughter Jhorna Akter and husband Javed Ali Sardar, police said Jhorna left the house for coaching centre at around 8.30am and Javed, a retired official of Bangladesh Survey Department, went to Savar in the morning.
On her return at around 11.00am, Jhorna found the door closed and having no reply she forced into the room and saw her mother lying amid flames on the bed, they said.
As Jhorna raised hue and cry, neighbours rushed to the spot and took Jabeda to a nearby clinic where the doctors declared her dead.
Javed filed a murder case with Pallabi Police Station in this connection.
Sub-inspector Abdus Salam told The Daily Star yesterday evening that Jhorna and Javed have accused the four girls of killing Jabeda as there was an altercation between them.
Salam, however interrogated the girls and neighbours and came to know that they left the house at 7.30am and remained in their respective workplaces till the recovery of the body.
The girls also told the police that they never saw Javed in that house in last two months.
Police also found that Javed lives at Savar and the couple had no good relations.
Moreover, nothing was lost from the house on that day, and the police will now interrogate Javed.
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