Man’s body parts in septic tank: Wife, imam remanded

GBNEWS24 DESK//

A Dhaka court has placed two persons on a five-day remand each in a case filed over recovering body parts of a man from a septic tank of a mosque in city’s Dakshinkhan area.

Those remanded are Asma Akhter, wife of victim Azharul Islam, 35, and Abdur Rahim, Imam of Sardarbari Jam’e Mosque.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nivana Khayer Jessy passed the remand order on Wednesday as the investigation office of the case sought 10 days’ remand for each them.

Police arrested Mawlana Abdur Rahman and Asma Akhter on Tuesday.

Imran Khan, Senior Assistant Director (ASP) of Legal and Media Wing in RAB, said Asma was the mastermind of the killing.

Abdur Rahim, Imam of a local mosque, hacked Azhar to death and later dumped the body parts in the mosque’s septic tank as per Asma’s plan.

Earlier on Tuesday morning, the elite force detained Imam Abdur Rahim in connection with the killing.

The RAB sources said Abdur Rahman killed Azhar, cut him into pieces and then dumped the body parts in the septic tank over an extra-marital affairs with Asma.