In a gruesome incident, a young housewife has been gang-raped and tortured to death by her husband and his three friends in Kachua upazila.
Police recovered the decomposed body of Ruma Akhter, 18, second wife of Fakhrul Islam, 25, of Koroish village under Kachua municipality, from a paddy field at the village on Thursday night, three days after she went missing.
Family sources said Ruma, daughter of M Sultan Ahmed of the village, was married off to Fakhrul barely one year ago. Fakhrul has also another wife who is infertile.
Ruma had been living at her father’s residence since the marriage. She, however, instantly put pressure on Fakhrul to take her to his house.
Under such situation, Ruma went missing on Monday night. Her brother filed a case against Fakhurl suspecting his involvement behind the incident.
The horrible incident of torture and killing of Ruma came to light only after the arrest of Fakhul.
Fakhrul confessed to the killing of his wife along with his three friends after gang-rape.
He told police that he decided to kill Ruma after being got furious at the repeated calls of Ruma to take her to his house.
Fakhrul said he along with his friends Sayem, 25, Sharif, 23, and Sakhawat gang-raped the girl and tortured her to death on Monday night.
Later, they dumped the body in the paddy field.
Following his confessional statement, a team of Kachua Police Station recovered the body of Ruma with numerous marks of torture allover the body from the paddy field around 11:30pm on Thursday.
The law enforcers also arrested Sayem and Sharif.
Officer in-charge of the police station Alamgir Hossain Majumder said the body was sent to Chandpur General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The court sent Fakhrul and his two friends to jail on Friday.
Source: UNBConnect
