Businessman Giasuddin was killed by the boyfriend of his wife Laboni Akter Lima on October 19 at Mirpur-10 in the capital.

The mystery of the murder came into light on Tuesday after the interrogation of the three arrestees involved with the incident.

The arrestees are: Tanvir Ahmed, 18, Lima’s boyfriend and first year student of BL college, Sadman Islam Mukto, 18, first year student of Dhaka Commerce College and Akibul Islam alias Jishan, 18, student of Government Science College.

Salauddin, offier-in-charge of Mirpur thana, said Lima was arrested for interrogation after the killing.

Lima admitted that she plotted the whole thing and her boyfriend Tanvir Ahmed and two of his friends killed Giasuddin, the OC said.

The OC also said according to her confessional statement, we arrested Tanvir from Mirpur-10 area.

Later, police in a drive arrested Akibul Islam alias Jishan and Sadman Islam who were directly involved with the killing.

Tanvir said he was introduced with Lima one year ago and developed an illicit relation with her.

Tanvir said he was introduced with Lima one year ago and developed an illicit relation with her.

‘We got married on October 15 and killed Gias to fulfill Lima’s wish, Lima asked me several times to kill her husband so that we could live together’ Tanvir said.

He said Lima gave me Tk 30 thousand to execute the murder and as par the deal, I gave Tk 15 thousand to Jishan and Sadman.

Another accused Sadman said Tanvir brought us to the fourth floor of a six storied building located at Block-C of Mirpur-10. We hit him with a stick around 10:00pm as soon as he reached home.

When he fell down on the floor, we tied his hands and legs with rope and Tanvir strangulated him to death, he added.

After executing the killing,  we left the place wearing Borkhas.

Meanwhile, the family members of the victim demanded death sentence of the accused.

NS