Woman found dead with throat slit at Dhaka’s Gulshan

The deceased was identified as Sadia Rahman Mim, 27, daughter of late Shahid Ali of Dhanbari upazila in Tangail. She used to run a beauty salon in Kalachandpur area and also worked at a bar.

Police detained her roommate Nusrat for interrogation.

Md Maruf Ahmed, sub-inspector of Gulshan Police Station, said the body was recovered from a rented flat at Kalachandpur West Para on Saturday night and then it was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue for autopsy on Sunday.

The body bore multiple injury marks and her throat had been slit, the SI said.

Mim’s elder sister Shahida filed a case with Gulshan Police Station against unidentified persons.

In the case statement, Shahida said she used to speak with her sister regularly over phone and last talked to her around 11:30am on January 16.

“That night, her phone was switched off. I tried several times the next day but could not reach her,” Shahida said.

She added that when she contacted Nusrat, the roommate claimed she had gone to her village home two days earlier and knew nothing about Mim’s whereabouts.

Shahida said she left Tangail for Dhaka on January 17 afternoon and reached Mim’s rented house around 9pm where she found the house locked.

“With the help of the landlord and local people, we broke open the lock and found my sister dead inside,” she said.

She immediately informed the National Emergency Service 999 after which police and the CID crime scene team arrived and sent the body to DMCH for autopsy, reports UNB. 

The deceased’s brother-in-law Noor Nabi said the family received the body from the DMCH morgue after the autopsy. The body will be taken to Tangail’s Dhanbari for burial, he said.

Police said further investigation is underway.