Case Against Husband
Woman's body exhumed over murder suspicion
Four months past the burial, a housewife's body was exhumed from the capital's Azimpur Graveyard yesterday over a Dhaka court order on a case accusing the husband of murder.
Nurul Amin, brother of the deceased Rehana Begum, 28, alleged that the absconding husband, Sayed Ahmad, killed Rehana for failing to grab an around Tk one crore-worth one-story building on a three katha plot at Kamrangir Char.
Rehana's family gave her the property during her marriage in 2010. The couple used to depend on the building's rent as Syed, who claimed to be a garment factory supervisor during the marriage, was unemployed, he said.
Some one and a half months before the murder, Sayed tried to convince Rehana into selling the property, saying that they would be able to start a business and live in a very good flat.
Sayed even brought buyers willing to pay Tk 90 lakh for the property but with her family not consenting to it, the couple started having rows, said Nurul.
After a quarrel on September 28 last year, Rehana told her mother Rezia Begum to come over to her house. Rezia did so and assured to take her away to her parent's house the next day, he said.
The following day, after knocking for a long time, Sayed opened the door. Inside, Rezia found Rehana unconscious on a bed, he said.
Sayed and a neighbour, Maleka Begum, took Rehana to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead. Within a few hours, they buried the body without any autopsy or informing police, added Nurul.
On October 10, Rezia filed the case with a Dhaka court seeking permission to exhume the body.
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