A court on Thursday sent Babul Mia, the prime suspect in the killing of three members of a family in Sylhet city’s Raynagar area, to jail.
Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Khan Md Mainul Zakir confirmed the development on Thursday evening.
Police said their investigation found that the triple murder stemmed from a personal dispute between Babul and the family’s domestic worker, Tahmina.
Babul was arrested on Wednesday afternoon from a colony in Raynagar’s Rajbari area.
During preliminary questioning, Babul reportedly confessed that he entered Nikunja Villa, a house in the Mitali Residential Area, on Wednesday morning and got into an altercation with Tahmina.
At one point, he allegedly stabbed Tahmina with a knife. When elderly couple Abdus Sattar and Suraiya Begum intervened to save her, Babul allegedly attacked them, killing both, police said.
Based on information provided by Babul, police recovered the bloodstained knife allegedly used in the killings on Thursday morning.
Abdus Sattar was a former director of the Sylhet Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a local Awami League leader.
The couple’s four children — three daughters and a son — all live abroad. Two of their daughters arrived in Sylhet from the United Kingdom on Thursday afternoon and received their parents’ bodies from Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
Their son, Arif Iftekhar, who lives in the United States, is expected to arrive in Bangladesh on Friday. The family said a case will be filed after his arrival.
Police have tightened security around the house following the killings.
