Thirteen years after the murder, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) unearthed that the wife of former MP of Saver Shamsuddoha Khan Majlish, was murdered by her daughter to remove a witness to her illicit affair.
Police also arrested three people including the daughter of ex-MP Majlish and two others in this connection. The arrested were identified as Shamima Khan Majlish alias Popy, 57, Arati Sarkar and Subal Kumar Roy, 50. All of them were arrested from Bhagalpur and Pakiza area of Savar on June 4.
Popy had an illicit relationship with Subol Kumar and dispute over family property and political enmity were also considered as reason behind the murder, said Qudrat-e-Khuda, Superintendent of PBI while speaking at a press briefing at its Dhanmondi headquarters on Tuesday.
Selima Khan Majlish, 63, wife of former MP and also the president of Dhaka district unit Awami League, Shamsuddoha Majlish used to live with her daughter Poppy, another daughter Tilottoma and her husband Abul Kalam Azad, another daughter Selina Khan Majlish alias Shilpi, 38, and son Plabon, 12, at a flat. On June 14, 2011, Selima was found injured with her throat slit between 6:30am to 7:00am. The belly of Salima was also found cut. Later, she was taken to the Combined Military Hospital and succumbed to her injuries on June 18, 2011.
Shafiur Rahman alias Shafi, brother of Selima, filed a case. Police arrested Selimas son-in-law Abul Kalam Azad and husband of domestic help, Haripodo Sarkar, in this connection. The case was later shifted to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). During the four years investigation, CID arrested Abu Sufian Rana, 32, in this connection but excluded his name from the final report as he was not found guilty.
CID submitted the final report before the court in 2015. The court then transferred the case to the PBI.
During investigation PBI arrested Subol Kumar on May 30 this year and following the confessional statement of his, PBI arrested Popy and Aroti in the murder case.
According to the confessional statement of Subol, it is known that Subol with the help of Shamima cut the neck of Selima when she was sitting at the dining room.
Later, they took her to the bedroom of her son and ran away after keeping her lying on the bed in a wounded condition.
