Police identify body found in trunk after 6 years, 1 held

Police have identified the woman whose body was found in a trunk at Gabtoli Bus stand in 2015 and arrested the prime accused at Cumilla.

The deceased was Shampa Begum, daughter of Ilias Sheikh a medical assistant hailing from Khulna.

Member of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested retired navy member Rezaul Karim Shwapon from Cumilla EPZ area on Friday morning.

According to PBI, on March 5, 2015 a man collected a ticket of a Dhaka-bound bus of Eagle Pribahan from Chattogram and kept a trunk in the cargo box of the bus but he didn’t get in.

As the bus reached Gabtoli bus around 5:45pm the driver and his assistant found the trunk and informed police out of suspicion. Police recovered the body and sent it for an autopsy.

As the identity of the woman could not known, the body was buried as an unclaimed one and sub-inspector Jahanur Ali filed a case at Darussalam police station in this regard. After three months of investigation by police and another four years of investigation by Crime Investigation Department (CID)a report on the case was submitted to a court.

As the victim remained unidentified the court rejected the report and directed to hand over the case to PBI for further investigation in 2019.