Doctor’s suicide: Police seek 7-day remand for wife

Chattogram, Feb 2 – Police have forwarded an application to take Tanzila Haque Chowdhury Mitu on seven-day remand in connection with the ‘suicide’ of her husband Dr Mustafa Murshed Akash for instigating his suicide.
Chandgaon Police Station assitant Sub-inspector Abdul Kader who is also the investigation officer assigned to the case prayed for the remand to Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Saturday Afternoon.
Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Additional Deputy Commissioner (South) Md Mijanur Rahman said that police have been investigating Mitu’s instigation in her husband’s death.
Akash, 33, reportedly killed himself over family feud in Chandgaon residential area in the city after an altercation with his wife about her alleged illicit affairs early Friday.
Family members said, before his apparent suicide, Akash had shared photos of his wife on his Facebook profile and wrote about her alleged extramarital affairs before announcing his decision to end own life.
Akash’s mother Jobeda Khanam filed the case with Chandgaon Police Station in Chattogram on Friday accusing Mitu, Mitu’s father Anisul haque Chowdhury and mother Shamim Shelly, sister Sanzila Haque Chowdhury, her alleged boyfriends Mahbubul Haque and an Indian citizen referred only as Patel. – UNB