Police on Sunday arrested a teenager in suspicion of killing his two aunts at a house at Shewrapara in the capital Dhaka on May 9.
The 14-year-old Golam Rabbani Taj left the house after killing Mariam Begum, 60, and Sufia Begum, 52, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch joint commissioner for south and admin, Mohammad Nasirul Islam, said at a press briefing on Minto Road in the city on Monday.
He was arrested from his maternal grandparents鈥� house at Jhalakati Sadar at about 3:30am on Sunday, he said.
鈥楬e changed his clothes after killing his aunts and locked the house from outside before leaving,鈥� added the DB official.
According to the police, Taj went to his aunt Marium Begum鈥檚 house where he was caught while taking out Tk聽3,000 from his aunt鈥檚 wallet without her knowledge to buy a bicycle.
He first stabbed his elder aunt Marium with a knife on the table as she was going to inform his mother about the incident.
Later, he stabbed his younger aunt Sufia, who had come running after hearing Marium鈥檚 screams, and then hit her with a pestle to death.
Retired in 2021, deceased Mariam was a former assistant director of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority.
Police said that the house was found locked from outside on the day of the incident.
Mariam鈥檚 daughter Nusrat unlocked the door in the evening and found the bloodied bodies of her mother and aunt.
Mariam鈥檚 husband Kazi Alauddin, who was a forest department official, filed a case in this connection with the Mirpur Model police station on Saturday against unidentified people.
