Murder of woman on Munshiganj highway, lover sued

A case has been filed implicating lover Towheed as the prime accused in Shahida Akter murder on the Expressway Service Lane at Sreenagar in Munshiganj.

Jorina Begum, mother of the victim Shahida, filed the case at Sreenagar Police Station on Sunday (December 1) morning.

Confirming about the registering of the case into the gruesome murder of the 24-year-old, Sreenagar Police Station's officer-in-charge (OC) Qayyum Uddin Chowdhury said a number of teams of police have been conducting drives at different places to arrest the principal accused of the case. But, it couldn't be possible to arrest him yet. However, he is hopeful of bringing Towheed before justice soon.

Victim Shahida lived at Wari area in the capital and the accused Towheed also lived in the same area.

Additional police super (Crimes) of Munshiganj Mohammad Firoz Kabir said police have been working constantly to unearth the mystery behind the brutal murder.

On early Saturday morning, the bullet-hit body of Shahida Akter was found on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway at Dogachhi area in Munshiganj.

The deceased was Shahida Begum, daughter of Motaleb Mia. She used to work as a domestic help in a house at Wari area in Dhaka.

Being informed by locals, the police recovered the body from the expressway and Shahida's mother Jorina Khatun identified her body in the afternoon.

It could not be possible to identify the dead body through her fingerprints. Later, family members of the victim were contacted and Shahida's mother Jorina Begum went to the spot and identified her daughter.

According to locals, Shahida was roaming with a young man in the early morning and locked into an altercation with him.

The police also seized five empty bullet shells from near Shahida's dead body.

Police said the killer fled immediately after shooting the woman five times from point blank range. A motorcycle was also found near the body.

A special team from the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) collected evidence from the site.

The body was sent to a local hospital morgue for autopsy.