Police have arrested the murderer's wife in connection with the stabbing death of her husband at a residential hotel in the capital's Dakshinkhan. The name of the arrested woman is Hajera Akhter alias Noor. She was arrested from the Keraniganj Goppar area of Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC) Muhammad Talebur Rahman of DMP Media Department informed this information on Thursday (October 3) night.
He said that on September 29, victim Shakhawat Hossain Sharif and his wife Hajera Akhter alias Noor rented a room on the ground floor of the Haji Hotel International Residential Hotel in the capital's Dakshinkhan area. The next evening, the police recovered the body of Shakhawat Hossain Sharif on the information of the hotel authorities.
Later, the body of Shakhawat Hossain Sharif was identified with the help of CID forensic team and PBI. On hearing the news, Saiful Islam, the deceased's father, lodged a complaint with the Dakshinkhan Police Station on Wednesday.
A special team of Dakshinkhan police station conducted 86 raids in different places of Gazipur and Dhaka districts to catch the killer. At one point, the victim's wife Hajera Akhtar Noor was arrested from the Goppar area of Keraniganj police station in Dhaka district. The knife used in the murder was also recovered.
In the accuser’s confession about the reason for killing her husband, the killer told the police that there was a quarrel and a fight between the husband and wife due to a marital dispute in the hotel room. During the scuffle, wife Hajera Akhter alias Noor stabbed her husband in multiple places with a knife. As a result her husband died. The next morning Hajera managed to escape around 5 o'clock. This officer of the media department said that she has given a confessional statement to the court, admitting her responsibility for the murder.