Breakthrough eludes police in Reshma murder probe

Police have failed to find useful leads, let alone secure a breakthrough, in the Reshma murder case. Five days after Mirpur college student Amena Khatun Reshma was found brutally murdered in the apartment she stayed with her parents, police say they have not got any useful clue from relatives initially suspected of involvement in the murder. Reshma was murdered on July 9 in her house at Rainkhola in Dhaka’s Mirpur where she was living with her mother Mariam Begum and stepfather Alamgir Hossain. Police suspected that conflicts arising out of complicated relationships following three marriages of her father might have led to the murder. They arrested Reshma’s stepbrother ‘Robin’, 22, and ‘Milon’, the security guard of the building. Investigators have been grilling them but their remand ends on Monday. Touhidul Arefin, Mirpur Model Police Station Sub-inspector said they have so far got no useful clue from either Robin or Milon that could help them crack the murder case. He said police had tracked phone communications of Hossain’s third wife Khodeza but had not found anything relevant. Arefin described the case as complicated, but said police was determined to crack it and find the killers. Mariam Begum told police and journalists after the incident that Reshma and her father were in the apartment when she left for Hajiparha on Thursday morning. Later Hossain left for his office at Motijheel. Mariam returned home an hour later to find her daughter in a pool of blood, lifeless and slashed at the neck, according to bdnews24.com.