A stalker allegedly hacked a father to death at Bahadurpur village under Motlob North upazila of the district Tuesday night for protesting harassment of his school-going daughter and marring her off. The deceased identified as Monir Hossain, 45, of Bahadurpur village, was a fish trader at Jatrabari of the capital.
Abdul Hannan, 20, son of Ali Ahmed of the same village, has been harassing Monir’s daughter Tania Akter on her way to school for years.
Locals alleged Hannan waylaid Monir Tuesday night when Monir was returning from Shikirchar to Bahadurpur after crossing a canal on boat.
Witness Nibaronnesa, 60, wife of Mobarak Bapari from neighbourhood, said she was with Monir on boat. Within few steps after getting off the boat, she heard someone screaming.
Later, locals found Monir lying in a pool of blood, she added. He died while he was being taken to a hospital.
Tania said Hannan used to stalk her when she was a student of Sharif Ullah High School in Bahadurpur. Hannan even sent a marriage proposal to her family, but the family declined it. Angered at the denial, Hannan threatened to kill Monir if he did not marry his daughter to Hannan.
“My father brought me to the capital to escape the harassment and admitted me to Muradur High School,” she said.
But it did not bring any solution as Hannan also came to Dhaka and took a job in a grocery shop in Jatrabari. He again started harassing Tania on her way to school.
On November 25, Monir took Tania to the village and resorted to marrying her off to someone from Daudkandi the same day.
Tania said Hannan has been threatening to kill her father since the marriage. Several complaints against the stalker were made earlier to the union parishad member and other local people but to no avail.
Officer-in-Charge Rustom Ali of North Motlob Police Station said the stalker went into hiding after the killing, and the police were trying to arrest him.
Fatema Begum, wife of the dead, yesterday filed a case with the police station.
