Online Desk :  Thirteen years after the murder, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) unearthed that Selima Khan Majlish, wife of former Awami League MP of Savar Shamsuddoha Khan Majlish, was murdered by her daughter as she witnessed illegal relationship of her daughter. Three people including daughter have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder of Selima Khan Majlish committed at a house at Dakkhin Para area in Savar 13 years ago. he Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said the murder was committed by the victim’s own daughter. The three arrestees are the late MP’s daughter Shamima Khan Majlish Poppy, 57, her ‘lover’ electrician Subal Kumar Roy, 50, and the MP’s house-maid Aarti Sarkar, 58.

PBI Chief and Additional Inspector General of Police (IGP) Banaj Kumar Mazumder revealed it at a press conference at the PBI’s Dhanmondi office in the capital on Tuesday (July 2) morning. He said Selima Khan Majlish was killed as she strongly opposed to the love affair between killer Subal and her daughter Poppy. Both the accused also tried to publicise the murder as ‘suicide’. Banaj Kumar Mazumder said there had also been quarrels between the mother and daughter over the sharing of family property following Shamsuddoha Khan Majlish’s death. Subal, who was arrested from Savar on May 30 last, has already ‘confessed’ to the murder, said the investigating officer, Sub-Inspector Imran Ahmed.

The other two were arrested in Savar on Sunday based on information provided by Subal, he added. The PBI chief said after Selima’s death, her brother Safiur Rahman filed a case. The investigation of that case fell under the CID’s jurisdiction, he added. The CID considered the incident as a ‘suicide’ and submitted a final report to the court. The court accepted the report and disposed of the case. Safiur, the plaintiff in the case, then applied for the transfer of the investigation to PBI but failed. Later, PBI filed a separate petition with the court to take over the investigation. The court ordered PBI to investigate the case in 2020. After four years of inquiry, the PBI has solved the case, Banaj Kumar Mazumder said. “Electrician Subal was occasionally called to the MP’s house for work. During these visits, he developed a relationship with the MP’s widowed daughter, Poppy.” “When the affair became known, Subal was asked not to visit the house. A few days later, Selima got angry when she saw Subal near her house very early in the morning. She then started shouting,” said the PBI chief.

“Later, with the help of Poppy, Subal entered the house on the day of the incident and cut Selima’s throat with a fruit-cutting knife. To confirm her death, he broke the switchboard of the kitchen of the house, took out the live electric wire from there and gave electric shock on her head,” Majumder added. He said when the PBI took over the case five years after the CID’s report, they could not find the necessary documents. “Later, some facts were recorded on the basis of data and information provided by another child of the former MP,” he said. “While investigating who witnessed what inside the house during the incident, someone said the kitchen switchboard was broken at that time.” “Subal was put on the suspect list on the basis of the broken switchboard. After interrogation, he confessed to the crime,” he added.