Sensational information about the killer Sohel emerged from information provided by his wife

❐ Staff Reporter

A couple living in a nearby flat tried to hide the body of 7-year-old Ramisa Akhter after she was brutally murdered in the capital’s Pallabi area, police said. The main suspects, Sohel Rana (34) and his wife Swapna Akhter (26), have been arrested in the incident.

Ramisa’s dismembered body was recovered from a third-floor flat in a house in Mirpur-11 section around 11:30 am on Tuesday.

Police said that after the murder, the child’s head was severed and kept in the toilet, and the rest of the body was hidden under the bed.

Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police SN Md. Nazrul Islam said that around 10:30 am, Ramisa’s mother, while looking for her to go to school, saw a pair of shoes in front of the house. Suspicious of this, she knocked on the door of the next-door flat. After a long time, when the door was opened, Swapna Akhter was found, but Sohel Rana escaped by cutting the window grill.

Police recovered the body from the scene and collected various evidence. It is initially believed that the child may have been sexually assaulted. The evidence has been sent to the CID to confirm the matter and an investigation is underway.

Police believe the body was dismembered to conceal the crime. However, the accused were unable to carry out the entire plan as the child’s mother found out about the incident.

Later in the evening, Sohel Rana was arrested from Fatulla area of ​​Narayanganj. The arrested couple lives in Singra upazila of Naogaon district.

According to family sources, Ramisa was a second-grade student at a local school. Her father, Abdul Hannan Molla, works at a recruiting agency and her mother, Parveen Akhtar, is a housewife. Ramisa was the younger of two sisters.

The incident created a stir in the area. A crowd of curious people gathered in front of the house and the police collected various evidence.

Police said there is a case against Sohel Rana under the Anti-Terrorism Act in Natore.

After the incident, the police arrested Sohel’s wife Swapna from the flat. However, Sohel escaped by cutting the window grill. Later, with the help of information technology, the police learned that Sohel had gone to a shop in Narayanganj to collect money sent by his friend.

Immediately, a DMP team, with the help of local police and shopkeepers, raided the place and arrested him from the Bikash shop.

Based on his behavior and initial information, he is suspected of being mentally disturbed. However, the final decision will be known after the forensic report.

On the other hand, Swapna Akhter claimed that she was asleep after taking sleeping pills and did not know anything about the incident. However, according to the police, she assisted in the crime by not opening the door and helping the accused escape.

The body has been sent to the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. The investigation is ongoing.