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Police have recovered the throat-slit body of a beauty parlour owner from a rented house in the capital’s Gulshan area. The deceased was identified as Sadia Rahman Mim, 27, daughter of late Shahid Ali of Dhanbari upazila in Tangail. She used to run a beauty salon in Kalachandpur area and also worked at a bar. Police detained her roommate Nusrat for interrogation. Md Maruf Ahmed, sub-inspector of Gulshan Police Station, said the body was recovered from a rented flat at Kalachandpur West Para on Saturday night and then it was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue for autopsy on Sunday. Read More: Minor boy killed in Jatrabari road crash The body bore multiple injury marks and her throat had been slit, the SI said. Mim’s elder sister Shahida filed a case with Gulshan Police Station against unidentified persons. In the case statement, Shahida said she used to speak with her sister regularly over phone and last talked to her around 11:30am on January 16. “That night, her phone was switched off. I tried several times the next day but could not reach her,” Shahida said. She added that when she contacted Nusrat, the roommate claimed she had gone to her village home two days earlier and knew nothing about Mim’s whereabouts. Shahida said she left Tangail for Dhaka on January 17 afternoon and reached Mim’s rented house around 9pm where she found the house locked. Read More: College student found dead at Mirpur residence “With the help of the landlord and local people, we broke open the lock and found my sister dead inside,” she said. She immediately informed the National Emergency Service 999 after which police and the CID crime scene team arrived and sent the body to DMCH for autopsy. The deceased’s brother-in-law Noor Nabi said the family received the body from the DMCH morgue after the autopsy. The body will be taken to Tangail’s Dhanbari for burial, he said. Police said further investigation is underway.

A 30-year-old housewife has ended up murdered as a dispute over the boundary line of a house took a deadly turn Friday in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj, Sylhet. The victim, Ayesha Akter Poly, was married to expatriate Akter Mia of Jarulia Gozaripara under the upazila. Locals said there had been a longstanding dispute between Poly and her husband’s step-brother Gabru Mia over the boundary separating their two houses. The victim had filed a case under Women and Children Repression and Prevention Act against her adversaries recently. Read: Agent banking director killed by lightning strike in Bhola Gabru’s sons Masuk, Mamun, daughter Shefa and her husband Shamim went to Poly's house around 9.30am and quizzed her about the case.At one stage, all four allegedly stabbed Poly with meat cleavers and slit her throat to make sure she was dead after dragging her out of the house, said the locals in the neighbourhood. They further said the victim’s eight-year-old son took shelter under bedstead and mother-in-law fled the house fearing the attackers. Read: Swechhasebak League activist killed in Chuadanga Md Ali Ashraf, officer-in-charge of Chunarughat Police Station, said they rushed to the spot and recovered Poly's body. It was sent to Habiganj Sadar Hospital for an autopsy, he said, adding that efforts are on to nab the alleged killers.