MP Gazi Nazrul, 1st wife remanded over 2nd wife’s death

A Dhaka court on Monday placed Satkhira-4 MP GM Nazrul Islam on a four-day remand while his first wife Maksuda Islam on a one-day remand in a case filed over abetment to suicide of his second wife Mariam.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ehsanul Islam passed the order when Shamsuzzoha, sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station and also the investigating officer of the case, produced them before the court with seven-day remand prayer.

According to the remand petition, the MP, an expelled Jamaat leader, and his first wife were put on remand to investigate the suspected role of the accused in instigating, provoking, pressuring, intimidating, or otherwise inducing the victim to commit suicide.

Earlier in the day, police produced the MP before the court around 3:11 pm wearing bullet proof jacket and helmet.

The body of Nazrul’s second wife Mosammat Mariam Khatun, 19, was found hanging at NAM Bhaban in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Sunday evening.

Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Monir Hossain said they found the body hanging from a ceiling fan inside a room of Flat No. 203 on the third floor of Building No. 5 of NAM Bhaban.

Later, Nazrul and his first wife were taken into police custody for questioning.

Masum Billah, father of Mariam, filed a case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.

Gazi Nazrul Islam was elected MP from the Satkhira-4 constituency in the 13th parliamentary election on a Jamaat-e-Islami nomination.

In July, a video showing him in a private moment with a young woman circulated on social media. He later identified the woman as his second wife  Mariam Khatun.

Jamaat-e-Islami subsequently expelled Gazi Nazrul Islam from the party.