Cousin not Poly's killer
Five days after the gruesome murder, detective police arrested Eden College student Poly's killer from the Stadium market area in Paltan yesterday.
The DB police have also recovered the victim's cell phone set and knives apparently used to kill her, from the possession of AKM Nahidul Baksa who has confessed to killing her.
After his arrest, AKM Nahidul Baksa, 30, confessed that he had murdered Poly and based on information given by him, police recovered Poly's cell phone set from his house at Wari.
They also recovered a blood stained T-shirt and a pair of trousers belonging to Nahidul as well as the knives he used in the killing.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Detective Branch (south) Awlad Hossain told reporters yesterday that Nahidul said that he had a love affair with Poly in the past and had stabbed her to death to take revenge on her as she had broken off the year-long relationship recently and started going out with someone else.
DB sources said that Nahidul made contact with the victim over a cell phone before he went to Poly Rani Halder's residence on the night of February 15 when everyone else in the house were out.
After his arrival at the flat, Nahidul attacked Poly with knives he had bought on the way there, DC DB Awlad said. At one point, he also grabbed a boti -- a carved kitchen blade -- from the kitchen and repeatedly attacked her with it till she was dead.
He then fled the scene with Poly's cell phone set.
Two teams of DB police have been working on the case since the murder five days ago. Acting on information from the police intelligence, they were able to identify Nahidul yesterday and arrested him from the city.
Earlier on Tuesday, police arrested Poly's maternal uncle and cousin and put them on a four-day remand for interrogation suspecting their involvement in her murder.
The body of Poly Rani Halder, 23, of Pirojpur, was recovered from the kitchen of her uncle Shoilendra Mitra's home, on the second floor of a seven-storey building in Lalbagh.
Poly had been residing with her uncle's family for several years for her studies.
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