Two housewives were killed for dowry in Comilla and Munshiganj on Wednesday midnight and Thursday. A man allegedly strangled his wife at village Shahababad under Brahmanpara upazila in Comilla on Thursday. The victim is Aysha Begum, 27, daughter of Seraj Ali of the Barershor area under the upazila.The police, quoting local people, said AyshaÂ’s husband Sumon Miah, 30, beat his wife to death when she expressed her inability to bring dowry of Tk 45,000 from her poor parents. The man later hanged the body to prove that the death was an incident of suicide.
| Didn't fool anyone since this is apparently a common rouse. |
Sumon fled the scene after the incident. The police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for post-mortem examination. A case was filed with the police.
Meanwhile, a man killed his pregnant wife at village Madhyapara under Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj Wednesday midnight. The deceased is Ayesha Akter Shila, 22. Locals said Ibrahim, husband of Shila, often tortured her for dowry. On Wednesday midnight Ibrahim and his family members beat her severely for the same reason.
She died on the spot. Later to prove it an incident of suicide they hanged the body from a ceiling of their house. A case was filed with the police. The police arrested her husband Thursday morning in this connection.