Police recovered the hanging body of female domestic help from her employer's house at Mohammadpur of the city yesterday morning.
The victim Roksana Akhter, 15, daughter of Nasir Uddin of Charjabbar in Noakhali was found hanging from balcony grill of the house.
Roksana had been working at Shah Alam's house since last six months. Police detained Shah Alam for interrogation, said police.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mohammadpur Police Station Mahmudul Islam told reporters that the house owner claimed that the girl committed suicide at any time of the night while they were asleep.
The incident was mysterious, as the legs of the victim were on the ground while they recovered the body around 8:00am.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy, the OC added.
One cousin of the deceased, Abul Kalam Azad, said that Rokasan called her mother Hosne Ara over phone around 9:00pm on Saturday saying that her employee beat her up now over a trifling matter. She requested her mother to come and take her home, he said.
Source : The Daily Star
