Triple murder in Dhaka’s Kadamtali: elder daughter and her husband sued

A case was filed against a woman and her husband on charge of killing the former's parents and sister in Dhaka's Kadamtali area yesterday.

The accused are Mehjabin Islam Moon (30) and her husband Shafiqul Islam (40), said Jamal Uddin Mir, officer-in-charge of Kadamtali Police Station.

The OC said Moon's uncle Shakhawat Hossain filed the case with Kadamtali Police station early today.

She was sent to a Dhaka Court with a seven-day remand prayer but her husband could not be interrogated as he is still receiving treatment at hospital.

Kadamtali police recovered the bodies of Masud Rana (50), a Saudi expat; his wife Mousumi Islam (45); and their daughter Jannatul Islam from a building on Rajjab Ali Sarder Road around 11:30am after Moon called 999.

Police suspect that the three were strangled to death after being sedated. The legs and hands of the bodies were found tied up.

Shah Iftekhar Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Wari Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, yesterday said Moon primarily admitted that she put sleeping pills with tea and later strangled them.

"The incident may have been the result of a family dispute," the police official had said.