Domestic Help Found Dead
College teacher arrested
Staff Correspondent
Police yesterday arrested a teacher of Eden Women's College in connection with the death of an elderly domestic help who worked at her house. The police recovered the body of Fatema Begum, 50, on Thursday night. Fatema worked at the house of Shila Islam, a professor of general history, in New DOHS area. Police filed a murder case against Shila and produced her in the court, which placed her on one-day remand for interrogation. On Thursday night, police acting on information from the neighbours, rushed to the house and came to know that the body of Fatema was being taken away in a car by Tajul Islam, Shila's husband, to Joypurhat, the home district of Fatema. "We immediately ordered Tajul over mobile phone to bring back the body," said Sub-Inspector Saiful Islam. "When he brought back the body, we found several marks of injuries all over the body." Shahjahan, another domestic help at Shila's house, told the police that Shila beat up Fatema on Thursday morning as she delayed preparing breakfast. Shila also admitted that she sometimes beat Fatema as she was not regular in her work and had a stealing tendency but denied the allegation of murder, police said. Family sources claimed that Fatema committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan.
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