The detective branch police on Thursday arrested a Dhaka University student in connection with the killing of a ramp model, Tahia Tabassum Adrita.
The arrested was identified as Ashish Karmaker alias Rehan, 23, a 4th year law department student.
A team of detectives arrested Rehan from the Doyel Chatar area on the university campus Thursday afternoon.
The detectives claimed that Rehan had admitted that he had killed his girlfriend in a house at Mohammadpur following a brawl over a trifling matter.
Producing the arrested before the reporters at a press briefing at the DMP media centre Friday afternoon, DB (north) deputy commissioner Mahbubur Rahman said Rehan had confessed that he had strangulated Adrita to death.
‘I had a long-lasting relation with Adrita and never intended to kill her. On the day, we went to a house at Mohammadpur to spend some time together. At one point, we were locked into an altercation over a trifle matter. I pushed Adrita and she collapsed
on the ground. As she shouted, I strangulated her to death,’ Rehan told reporters.
‘Later, I tore the dresses of Adrita and took her cell phone and purse and dumped them into a nearby dustbin,’ he added.
Police recovered the body of Adrita from a house at Mohammadpur’s Tajmahal Road on October 31.
-With New Age input
