Clicky
National

Housewife commits suicide after disputing over phone


Published : 21 Feb 2020 08:54 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 09:27 PM

A housewife committed suicide at Mukhtarpur village of Dhuliani union in Chowgachha upazila on Wednesday evening after having a conversation with her husband over a mobile phone, police and local sources said. 

 The deceased was identified as Bithi Khatun, 22, wife of Riaydh Hossain, a BGB member hailed from Mundia village in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah district. Bithi is an Honours Student of Government MM College in Jashore. Shaheenur Rahman Khan, a panel chairman of Dhuliani Union Parishad said that Bithi,daughter of Rashedul Islam Khan, a Malaysian resident of Mukhtarpur village under Dhuliani union of Chowgachha upazila in Jashore was married to Riyadh Hossain son of Badsha Mia of village Mundia in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah district one year ago. Since her marriage, her husband and her family have been torturing  Bithi in various ways. Before she died, Bithi was at his father's house, he added.

According to Bithi's family, on Wednesday afternoon at around 4:00 pm, she talked to her husband for about 30 minutes on a mobile phone. She then went to a room of his father's house with mobile and locked the door.  Later, at one time she committed suicide with a rope around her throat. Locals recovered her body after evening.

After the incident, the matter was reported to the Daspakia camp police. Sub-Inspector Mosharraf Hossain, in-charge of the Daspakia police camp said, the body was recovered from a room and sent to Jashore 250-bed general hospital morgue. A UD case was filed in Chowgachha Police Station in this regard.