Daughter, friends charged with killing woman

A daughter with the help of her friends killed her mother as she refused to marry off the daughter in Manikganj, reports UNB.

Joyoti Akter strangled mother Mahmuda Begum, 45, to death with the help of her lover and three others.

Joyoti Akter, detained in the Mahmuda Begum Killing case, revealed this in a confessional statement.

The accused friend Nayeem and his friend Rakib gave the statement under section 164 in the court of Manikganj judicial magistrate court's senior judge Shakil Ahmed.

Shamim Al Mamun, investigation officer of the case SI of Manikganj sadar thana police, said that Joyoti had divorced her husband in November last.

Meanwhile, she fell in love with Nayeem of village Arakul of Keraniganj in Dhaka district through Facebook. They themselves took preparation for marriage.

However, Joyoti's mother Mahmuda didn't agree in the marriage. She was trying to marry off her daughter with some one else.

Being annoyed, Joyoti chalked out plan to kill her mother with the help of lover Nayeem. On 21 January night, Nayeem, Rakib and two more friends went in the bed room of Joyoti. The friends were hired at Tk 1,50,000 and preliminarily Tk 16,000 was paid. There was a plan to kill house wife Mahmuda Begum but somehow it was not executed.

On 22 January, Joyoti's father went out for morning walk while mother Mahmuda Begum sat with her sewing machine. Taking this opportunity, two more including Nayeem entered into the room of Mahmuda Begum and strangled her to death.

At that time, Joyoti Akter gave false statement describing the killing as robbery due to suspicion. However, she was detained on the day of the incident. Later upon her statement Nayeem and Rakib were arrested. Drive is on to arrest the two others.

After producing in the court Joyoti was granted four days' remand.