Five days after a woman committed suicide killing her baby girl in the city, the husband was finally arrested from a city hotel yesterday.
Sarjina Akhter, 30, had people coming to her house demanding money that her husband took from them with false promises of jobs abroad.
Failing to cope with the increasing social humiliation, Sarjina on Friday slit open the throat of her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Anifa Akhter before hanging herself from a ceiling fan.
Detective police arrested Anisur Rahman alias Tuhin from a hotel at Nawabpur in the city at about 3:45am yesterday.
He admitted that he took several lakhs of taka from various people with false promises of jobs in other countries.
Quoting Anisur, 41, police said he had to cheat the money, as he has been unemployed for several years.
He said he had an argument with Sarjina on the day before she committed suicide. But he never imagined that her wife would take such "drastic measures," he told police.
Source : The Daily Star
