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Published : 10 Mar 2016, 12:04 PM
Mahfuza Rahman, 30, was last seen at her workplace, the Bellevue Hospital, on Dec 8 last year, media reports, citing her colleagues, say.
The next day her husband Mohammad Chowdhury, 38, had told hospital authorities, when they called to inquire about her after seeing her absent, that she had returned to Bangladesh because a close relative was injured in an accident.
He also said his wife would return to New York by the first week of March, the reports say.
However, Mahfuza did not return and Chowdhury, meanwhile, left the house with his 9-year-old daughter, telling the neighbours that they were returning to Dhaka.
Bellevue Hospital authorities on Friday informed the local police who then went to the couple's Kingsbridge Heights home in Bronx.
The neighbours told police that the house had been locked since Chowdhury ‘left for Bangladesh’ with his daughter on Dec 15. Before leaving, he had requested the neighbours to keep an eye on the house.
Fearing that Rahman might have been killed, police on Monday raided the family's home on East 198th Street, dug up the patio and had a cadaver dog search for any scent.
But nothing was found.
Police now have sought permission from a local court to inquire about Rahman’s bank accounts, according to a CBS New York report.
Rahman studied chemistry at University of Dhaka and then obtained her associate’s degree from LaGuardia Community College in Queens before attending Hunter College for a diploma in nursing.
The couple’s friend Mohammad N Majumder, a Bangldeshi lawyer living in Bronx, said they too were trying to track the couple.
“We are trying to establish contact with their relatives in Bangladesh as well,” he told bdnews24.com.
