Murder at city hotel: Two confess to killing girls after violation

Seventeen months after mysterious disappearance of two young girls of Kishoreganj town, two persons have confessed, before a senior judicial magistrate, to killing them following rape Maniruzzaman Halud Mia, 28, a suspended police constable of Kishoreganj Police Lines, and Shamim Houladar Jahir, 35, a cleaner of an electronics company in Chittagong, strangulated after raping Urmi, 18, and Sumi, 19, at Western Garden Hotel at Kawran Bazar in the city on July 16 last year, the alleged criminals said on Monday and Tuesday. Urmi was a Class-X student and daughter of advocate Md Nurunnabi in Kishoreganj town, and her friend college student Sumi was daughter of retired teacher Abu Bakar.
Munir trapped into ‘love’ Urmi using mobile phone, while Shamim developed a relationship with Sumi early last year, police said, adding that they (two criminals) had introduced themselves as sons of wealthy persons owning houses in Dhaka.
They took the girls to Dhaka by bus on July 16 last year and rented rooms No 306 and 307 of Western Garden Hotel.
According to their confessional statements, at around 1:00 PM on the same day, Manir killed Urmi and Shamim killed Sumi strangulating them after rape and then fled the scene.
Fathers of Sumi and Urmi lodged separate cases with Kishoreganj Sadar Police Station in this connection.
SI Mustafizur Rahman submitted an incomplete charge sheet before a Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on July 3 but Sumi’s father Abu Bakar filed a non-acceptance petition against the charge sheet, prompting the court to order further investigation.
Later, OC (Detective Branch) Amzad Hossain took the charge of investigation while under the directives of police headquarters another special probe committee headed by Senior ASP Nesar Uddin Ahmad was formed.
As the committee recovered a mobile phone from Shamim’s brother Shahin through mobile tracking, truth began to be unveiled.
Police sought remand for Shamim and Munir, who were on bail from the court, and the court granted seven-day remand for them on December 9.
Taking Shamim and Munir with them, police raided Western Garden hotel on December 12 and arrested Dilbar, 22, a hotel boy.
In a confessional statement before a magistrate in Kishoreganj on Monday, Dilbar said the hotel authorities on July 16 last year found bodies of the two victims after breaking locks of the two rooms.
After putting the bodies into two sacks, Dilbar threw one into Maghbazar Hira Jheel and the other into a dustbin near Tejgaon Railway Station, he said.
Tejgaon and Ramna police recovered the unidentified bodies from the spot and filed two unnatural death cases.
The criminals admitted to killing the two girls after rape during the remand.
Their statements under Section 164 were recorded when they were produced before Senior Judicial Magistrate Aijuddin on Monday and Tuesday,” ASP Nesar Ahmad said.

Courtesy of The New Nation