Last night, the body of the child, with hands and feet tied, was found in a pond near their home in Bhararifaud, Kanaighat upazila.Sylhet district police’s Kanaighat Circle Assistant Superintendent of Police, Alok Kanti Sharma, told The Daily Star that the child’s body was tied with rope and buried in the ground. After recovering the body, it was sent to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital for autopsy.He further stated that two women from the child’s neighboring house, Aleya Jan Bibi and her daughter Shamima Begum Marzia, have been detained in connection with the murder.”We are interrogating them, and we are also questioning Aleya Jan’s elderly mother, Kutubjan Begum, to uncover the motive for the murder. Initial indications suggest that a longstanding family feud between the child’s father and the suspects could be a possible reason behind the murder,” he added. On November 3, child Muntaha went to a religious gathering with her father, Shamim Ahmed, and returned home in the afternoon to play with other children. However, she was missing from 3 p.m. onward.After Muntaha went missing, her father, Shamim Ahmed, claimed that his daughter had been abducted. He announced a reward for finding her and filed a general diary (GD) at Kanaighat police station.
Source: The Daily Star
