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A Dhaka court has remanded in police custody a suspect over the mysterious death of Japanese woman Hiyori Miyeta in Dhaka’s Uttara.
Published : 07 Dec 2015, 08:48 PM
Metropolitan Magistrate Quaisarul Islam on Monday granted Uttara East Police Station OC (Investigation) Abu Bakar Siddique four days to interrogate Zakir Hossain Patowary. Siddique is also the case’s investigation officer.
Before remanding Patowary, the judge also rejected his bail plea, defence lawyer Mir Hossain said.
During the hearing, Hossain argued that his client was a business partner of the Japanese woman.
“She died while undergoing treatment and was not killed,” he told the court.
Court Police’s General Recording Officer Sub-Inspector Uzir Ali said Patowary had fled to India after the incident.
He was repatriated to Bangladesh through the Benapole border on Sunday.
Police have interrogated five persons over Miyeta’s death.
Miyeta, in her 60s, had been living in Bangladesh illegally for past 10 years and was involved in the readymade garment business, according to police.
On Nov 19, a Japanese embassy official filed a general diary with the Uttara East Police, saying Miyeta had been missing for three weeks.
Police later learnt that she had died on Oct 29 and was buried at the city corporation graveyard in Banani.
Police lodged the murder case against six men after preliminary investigations.
They arrested five men afterwards in Dhaka and Lakshmipur.
A court last month ordered the exhumation of Miyeta’s body and a fresh post-mortem examination to determine the cause of her death.
