Convict husband held after 21-year over killing wife

A fugitive convict who was sentenced to death in a case filed for burning his wife to death by pouring petrol on her body in Singair upazila of Manikganj, was detained by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from Bangshal area of the capital.

The convict was identified as Md Alam,40, of Atipara village of Singair.

The elite force RAB detained Tota from the capital on Saturday night, twenty-one years after the murder of his wife Ambia in 2001.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-4 arrested Alam from a shoe factory in Dhaka’s Bangshal area Saturday night, according to the media statement of Rab-4.

On September 5, 2001, Alam poured petrol on his wife Ambia Begum and set her on fire at Atipara village in Singair for not getting a dowry.

Ambia died while undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital the following day.