PBI interrogating accused Saifa Rahman in Munia murder case
Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has taken Saifa Rahman, one of the main accused of the Mosharrat Jahan Munia murder case, into custody.
The police approached her home at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Tuesday noon. PBI additional police superintendent (law and media wing) Md Abu Yusuf confirmed this development to Prothom Alo.
He said Saifa Rahman is the accused No. 6 in the Munia murder lawsuit. She has been interrogated. Preparation for the next legal action is underway.
Saifa is the ex-wife of Nazmul Karim Chowdhury Sharun, son of Awami League (AL) lawmaker and parliament whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury.
Munia, 21, was found dead in the Gulshan flat on 26 April.
Within hours Gulshan police recovered her body hanging from a ceiling fan of her room with the elder sister alleging that her feet were touching the bed and there were marks of injury on the body.
Munia's sister first filed a case against Anvir accusing him of incitement to Munia's suicide.
Case investigator Abul Hasan, who was also the officer-in-charge of Gulshan police station found no evidence of Anvir's abetting the suicide and later a lower court cleared him of the charge.
On 6 September, Munia's elder sister Nusrat Jahan Tania filed the case with Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 against eight people.
The main accused in this case is Bashundhara Group managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, who allegedly had a relationship with Munia.
The other accused in the case are Bashundhara Group's chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Shah Alam, Shah Alam's wife Afroza Begum, Anvir's wife Sabrina Sayem, Faria Mahabub Piyasha, Saifa Rahman, owner of the flat Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon and his wife Sharmim Akhter. All of them are accused of abetting the crime.