Bank official killed, wife held in city

A bank executive was murdered at his Mirpur house in the capital Wednesday night, the victim's family members alleged.

The deceased, Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed Bappi, 26, was a senior officer at Jamuna Bank Motijheel Branch, bank sources said.

The police arrested the victim's wife Maria Akhter Sanda, 25, after his mother Sayda Akhter had filed a case accusing her daughter-in-law and some unnamed people of the alleged murder.

The Mirpur police, however, claimed Iftekhar Ahmed died from a head injury sustained while trying to commit suicide. According to the police, the cord with which Iftekhar tried to hang himself from the ceiling of a room was torn and he sustained the head injury from the sudden fall to the floor.

The Mirpur police on information recovered the body from an ambulance in front of his house at Section 10 at around 10:30pm, said the investigation officer of the case, Omar Ali.

The family members said Iftekhar attempted to commit suicide after an altercation with his wife in the evening but fell to the ground and sustained critical head injuries. He was rushed to a local hospital, where the doctor on duty pronounced him dead.

But, the inquest report read that the body bore marks of injuries in the neck and the knees. His head was critically wounded, the report said.

Iftekhar's uncle Moklesur Rahman alleged his nephew had been murdered.

Asked what made him certain that Iftekhar had been murdered, Moklesur said, 'From the marks of injuries in his head it seems he was murdered and the family members of his wife tried to disguise the killing as a suicidal accident'. 

'Iftekhar was tortured to death,' he said.

The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for post-mortem examinations, the hospital sources said.

The victim's family members said Iftekhar, who hailed from Mymensingh, got married to Maria from Barisal following a love affair a few years ago. But, they often used to get locked in altercation over family matters, particularly over his mother living in their house.

Source : New Age