Police say a family feud was the cause of the murder of a woman on a bus in Dhaka's Ashulia, reports bdnews24.com.
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) announced the findings a week after the incident. The investigators have arrested three suspects and found the bus.
Jarina Khatun, 45, was killed on board a bus headed from Ashulia to Tangail on the evening of Nov 9.
Her father Akbar Ali Mandul, 70, had been with her and was thrown from the same bus.
Police found the woman's body that night next to the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Moragang area after Akbar Ali reported her abduction.
The PBI has arrested Jarina's son-in-law Noor Islam and Noor's mother Amena Begum over the incident.
They have also detained a man named Swapan over the incident. He had acted as the matchmaker for the marriage between Noor and Jarina's daughter Rosina.
Noor had filed a case over his mother-in-law's death with the Ashulia Police Station. But the PBI's investigation found that Noor was involved in the murder.
The murder was motivated by a family feud, PBI DIG Banaj Kumar Majumder said at the press conference on Saturday.
An agreement had been made to pay the bus driver Tk 10,000 for the murder, he said.
The bus has been found, but police are still looking for four suspects, including the driver and his assistant.
Jarina and her father had come from Sirajganj to visit her daughter and son-in-law in Ashulia last Friday.
Akbar and Jarina had boarded the bus for Tangail at Ashulia's Unique Bus Stand on their way home.
Akbar said that once the bus set off a group began beating him and stole his mobile phone and money. The bus then began heading back to Ashulia and dumped him by Ashulia Bridge.
He reported the matter to a police patrol and his daughter's body was found about a kilometre away near the Moragang area.
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