Man arrested for killing wife, daughter in Lakshmipur

A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife and daughter in Ramganj of Lakshmipur over a family dispute, said Rapid Action Battalion

The arrestee Jamal Uddin and his wife Raushan Ara Begum had been in a family dispute since the beginning of their marriage, said 11 Lt Commander Mahmudul Hasan of RAB 11 Noakhali, CPC, Camp at a press conference yesterday afternoon.

Jamal lived in a rented house in Dhaka’s Rayedbagh area with his family. On April 15, he allegedly strangled Raushan to death over a dispute. At one point, he killed his one-year-old daughter by putting a pillow on her while she was sleeping, said RAB.

After the murders, Jamal left Dhaka for Noakhali by loading the bodies in a wardrobe on a pickup. At one point, he aborted going to Noakhali and dumped the bodies in a canal in Ramganj.

On April 19, police found the decomposed bodies of a one-year-old girl under the Hanubaish bridge of the canal along the Ramganj-Sonaimuri road and a woman under the bridge in front of the nearby Alipur SP house. On that night, police filed a murder case at Ramganj Police Station against an unidentified accused.

Jamal has confessed to the murders over a family dispute. He claimed that he committed the murder alone, said RAB.