Murder mystery solved after 4 yrs

Deloar Miji developed a relationship with a widow, Nilufa Begum, who later started pressuring him to marry her. Deloar, who was already married, then reserved a launch cabin under a different identity, took Nilufa there, and allegedly raped and killed her.

He left for Brunei nine days after the murder.

Following an investigation, the Police Bureau of Investigation recently solved the murder of the 57-year-old woman.

As soon as the murder suspect, Deloar, 44, landed at Dhaka airport from Brunei, the PBI, along with immigration police, arrested him on September 22.

Deloar gave a statement before a magistrate, confessing how he killed Nilufa in 2019, said PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder during a press briefing at its Dhanmondi headquarters yesterday.

Both Deloar and the victim hail from Chandpur's Hajiganj area, and they developed a relationship when he had been working at her house as a carpenter, said police.

Nilufa threatened to inform Deloar's family members about their relationship, as he was refusing to marry her. That was when Deloar hatched the plan.

He booked a cabin on the Mitali-7 launch under the name of one of the victim's neighbours, Jahangir and put the man's number in the register.

They boarded the Dhaka-bound launch from Chandpur at 10:00pm on June 16, 2019. He raped her and then strangled her to death, said the PBI chief.

Nilufa was found dead inside the cabin the next morning, and her brother filed a murder case against Jahangir with South Keraniganj Police Station a day later.