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Published : 12 May 2025, 03:50 PM
Police have arrested a man called Golam Rabbani Taj to "unravel the mystery" of the gruesome killing of two sisters at a house in Dhaka's Shewrapara.
Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Talebur Rahman, spokesman for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), shared the information in a statement on Monday.
The DMP will provide detailed information on the case at a press briefing, the statement said.
On Friday, two sisters- Mariam Begum, 60, and Sufia Begum, 52 - were killed by stabbing and bashing with a mortar and pestle at a flat in West Shewrapara.
The Shewrapara building near the metro station is owned by the family of Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Nasreen Jahan. The family of the dead lived there for 20 years.
Mariam was a former assistant director of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA). She retired in 2021. Her husband Kazi Alauddin is also a retired officer at the forest department. However, he lives in their ancestral home in Barishal most of the time.
Their elder daughter Israt Jahan Khushbu lives in the US and younger daughter Nusrat Jahan Brishti works at a multinational company in Dhaka.
Sufia was unmarried and had some “mental issues” and therefore lived with her sister.
Police said the house was locked from outside on the day the incident occurred. Mariam's daughter Nusrat unlocked the door in the evening and found the blooded bodies of her mother and aunt. Police were informed and the bodies were sent for an autopsy.
Police launched an investigation and, after analysing CCTV footage, found a man wearing a shirt and a cap entering the house a little before the Jummah prayers. He was carrying a backpack.
The man was seen leaving the house two hours later, but this time wearing a cap and a tee-shirt instead of the shirt he wore earlier.
Under the circumstances police assumed the killing "took place at a time between the beginning of Jummah prayer and 2:30pm."
They started searching for the suspected man and finally took him into custody, according to a DB officer.
The next day, police shared that a suspect had been detained.
