A woman of indigenous Santal community was tortured to death at Shimla Dighipara village of Godagari upzila in Rajshahi district yesterday, allegedly as a sequel to land dispute with her late husband's relatives.
Police recovered the body of the victim Moriam Murmu, 48, widow of late Hopna Mardi of Chaitanpur village in Tanore upazila, some 100 yards behind her Shimla Dighipara village home, yesterday morning.
Moriam went to bed at around 9:00pm on Saturday and neighbour Shaheb Kisku's wife Anajali Murmu saw her stripped body hanging from a tree at around 6:00am, said her family members and neighbours.
"Injury marks were found over her throat, legs, and other parts of the body. There was bleeding from the lower part of the body. There were gold ornaments on her ears," Sub Inspector Godagari police station Nuruzzaman, who prepared the inquest report of the body, told reporters.
Police sent her body to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, he said, adding that only autopsy report can say whether she was raped before murder.
Visiting her two-storied clay-made house at Shimla Dighipara village of Godagari upzila, police found that the room was ransacked but several valuables remained untouched.
Mariam's son Wilson Marandi, an official at Amnura Christian Mission, yesterday filed a murder case, mentioning his paternal uncle Biswanath Marandi as a suspect behind the murder.
"My mother had a feud with the suspected person over last 15 years as she demanded her due share of her father-in-law's landed property of 7.63 acres," Wilson told this correspondent.
Source : The Daily Star
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