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The husband of a 28-year-old female doctor found dead in a hotel room in the capital, confessed to killing his wife, said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday, reports UNB.
Commander Khandker Al Moin, director of the legal and media wing, confirmed it to the media at RAB headquarters.
He said, "During sustained interrogation, Rezaul Karim Reza told us that he took his wife, Dr. Jannatul Nayeem Sritika, to the hotel on the pretext of celebrating her birthday and then stabbed her before slitting her throat."
Reza was arrested on Thursday night by members of RAB-2 and 7 from the Muradpur area of Chattogram city.
The elite force recovered Reza’s blood-stained clothes, his mobile phone and his wife's cell phone from his possession, post-arrest.
On August 10, Sritika's body was recovered from the fifth-floor room of the Family Service Apartment in the Panthapath area of the capital.
The following day, a case was filed with Kalabagan Police Station accusing Reza, following a complaint from the victim's father.
After completing her MBBS from Moghbazar Community Medical College, Sritika was undertaking gynecology training at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
On the other hand, Reza, who works as a senior executive at a private company, hails from Cox’s Bazar.
According to Reza’s confession, Reza and Sritika grew close to each other after meeting on social media in 2019 and got married secretly in 2020. As their families were not informed about the marriage, they used to meet at different hotels in the city.
"Sritika and Reza often used to fight over the latter's extra-marital affairs as counseling and discussions on the matter failed to resolve the issue. As the marital feud grew, Reza planned to murder his wife to get rid of her," said the RAB officer.
On August 10, Reza took her to the hotel to celebrate her birthday, got into a planned fight and then stabbed Sritika with a knife and later slit her throat, he added.
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