Nishat Killing
Detectives suspect hitmen aimed to kill mother too
Detectives suspect that the three unidentified men who strangled Nishat Banu before her mother in their Topkhana residence in the capital on the night of June 5 were hired to murder the duo.
“The elderly woman is lucky to be alive,” Inspector Fazlur Rahman of Detective Branch (DB), the investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star last evening.
“The criminals might have been hired to kill the duo. After beating the mother, they might have left her for dead,” he said.
The criminals looted Tk 35,000 and six of Nishat's property deeds and left the tied up 76-year-old mother, Khaleda Banu, beside Nishat's body at around 3:30am on June 6.
With no one within hearing distance, nearly a day and a half went by before Khaleda was able to untie the cloth binding her and call out to the neighbours for help.
Yesterday, DB personnel detained four staff of Appayan Restaurant, adjoining the building where the murder took place.
The detainees are the restaurant's manager Pankaj Dey and staff Zaman, Alauddin and Khokan.
Earlier, Khaleda had told police that she suspected two brothers, who grabbed her property 20 years ago and built the restaurant on it, had planned the murder to seize her remaining properties.
The brothers, Selim Talukdar and Saiful Talukdar, the restaurant's owners, were detained by DB personnel on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the murder case Khaleda filed with Shahbagh Police Station on Thursday accusing the brothers and three unidentified people has been transferred to DB.
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