Police recovered the throat-slit body of an elderly woman from her home in West Bhuapur area of Bhuapur municipal area in Tangail early Friday.
The deceased is Sultana Suraiya, 65, mother of The Business Standard news editor Abu Shyem Akhund and wife of Freedom Fighter Abdur Rahim Akhund. She used to live alone in their house in West Bhuapur village.
Locals said that the neighbours and family members on Thursday night found her phone switched off and went to her house and found the light and ceiling fan switched on.
They said that they, being suspicious, peeked into the house and found the throat-slit body lying on the floor of a room locked from outside.
Abu Shyem Akhund said that they had no enemies and suspected that drug addicts might have come to steal and committed the murder.
He demand exemplary punishment to those involved in the murder through investigation.
Bhuapur police station officer-in-charge Md Ahsan Ullah said that they sent the body to Tangail Genetal Hospital for post mortem examination.He said that they were expecting a case in this connection.
