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Housewife found dead in Madaripur, family claims murder |
The body of a housewife has been recovered from an orchard in Sadar upazila of Madaripur two days after her missing. The deceased was identified as Mousumi Akhter, 24, wife of Saudi expatriate Ilias Mira, a resident of Uttar Dudhkhali village. However, family members of the deceased alleged that Mousumi was murdered after death. According police and relatives of the deceased, Mousumi went out from her house on Wednesday afternoon to visit her grandmother’s house and was missing till then. A woman spotted the body was hanging inside an orchard on Friday afternoon when she went there to collect woods and informed locals. Being informed, police recovered the body and sent it to Madaripur Hospital morgue. Tanjila Akter, cousin of the deceased, said her sister was hanged from a branch of a tree after rape. “Why should she commit suicide as has two children? We demand justice over the incident.” Madaripur Sadar Model Police Station Monower Hossain Chowdhury said they were investigating the matter. AH/GY |