A female schoolteacher was killed at her house in the capital’s Pallabi area on Friday night.
The deceased, Aklima Akhter, 26, was a mathematics teacher at Mirpur Bangla High School and College. She would share a sublet room with her younger sister Sumi at a six-storey building in Mirpur-6.
She got married to Mohammad Liton three months ago, but had yet to be formally taken to the groom’s house.
Iqbal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Pallabi Police Station, said they recovered the body around 1:00am yesterday. They had to break open the door to get inside.
“We found a piece of cloth tightly wrapped around her neck,” said the OC adding that Aklima might have been strangled.
Lima Begum, who lives in the adjacent room, told The Daily Star she heard a sound while she was watching TV at the house owner’s room at 10:45pm on Friday night. As she went to check from where the sound was coming, she saw a youth rushing out of Aklima’s room barefooted.
House owner Mizanur Rahman’s wife Lipi Begum said they found the flat where Aklima’s room is locked from outside at about 11:30pm.
With the help of the neighbours, they unlocked the main door and found Aklima’s room locked as well. As one of them looked though a hole on the door, he saw her lying motionless on the floor.
Alarmed, they soon called the police.
Lipi added that when she saw a youth at Aklima’s room at about 8:00pm that night, she introduced him to her as cousin.
She saw the youth entering Aklima’s room around the same time the previous night.
At that time, Aklima’s sister Suma, a university student, was in their village home at Ashulia, she added.
Aklima’s father Saidur Rahman said a youth had been stalking her daughter over the phone for several months.
He suspects that he might have killed Aklima.
Salauddin Robin, a governing body member of the school, said Aklima’s father had informed the school’s headmaster about the stalker 10 days ago.
In reply, the headmaster had advised that Aklima change the SIM of her mobile and file a GD.
