Rangpur lawyer Rathish Chandra Bhowmik was strangled to death on the night of Mar 29 by his wife Dipa and her colleague and the body was later buried at a construction site, says the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed told the media in Rangpur on Wednesday that Ratish, who was a public prosecutor, was killed in his home and the body was later transported in a cupboard the next morning to burry at the premises of the under-construction building.
Four days after Ratish was reported missing, RAB recovered his body late on Tuesday after arresting his school teacher wife Dipa and her colleague Kamrul Islam Zafri.
“Dipa murdered her husband out of a conjugal feud and her alleged lover Kamrul helped her,” said RAB chief Benazir.
He said Dipa slipped in sleeping pills in Rathish’s food on the night of Mar 29, before strangling him to death using a scarf. Kamrul was in the house that night.
“Early morning the next day, Kamrul left only to return a few hours later with rickshaw van. The body was then put in a cupboard and transported to the construction, where it was buried. Kamrul had already arranged three men for the job,” said top RAB officer Benazir.
Law enforcers launched an investigation as soon as Ratish was reported missing on Friday.
On Tuesday, elite police unit RAB detained Dipa ‘on a tip-off’, according to Benazir.
“She confessed her involvement during the interrogation and based on her statement, the body was recovered from the construction site in the city’s Tajhat area around 11pm. Rathish’s brother Sushanta identified the body at the spot,” he said.
RAB has detained two more people involved in transporting and dumping the body.
“Four people — Dipa, Kamrul and the two involved in dumping the body— have been formally arrested in the case started over the murder,” said RAB Director General Benazir.