Missing Ex-DU professor’s body recovered in Gazipur
14 January 2022, 07:59 pm | Updated: 27 November 2024, 02:43 pm
Police recovered the body of a former professor of Dhaka University Saida Gaffar at Kashimpur in Gazipur on Friday. Two days after she went missing.
Saida Gaffar was a former Professor of Institute of Nutrition and Food Science of Dhaka University.
A mason Anwarul was arrested from Gaibandha district earlier on the day following a missing diary filed by the deceased's daughter Sahida Afrin at Kashimpur Police Station. He worked at the under-construction building of the professor.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Dipankar Roy of Kashimpur Police Station said Prof Saida’s body was recovered from a place away from her rented house at Panishail area in Kashimpur on Friday based on the arrestee’s information.
Saida Gaffar lived in the area to supervise the construction work of her flat at a Dhaka University Housing project.
During interrogation, the arrestee also confessed to strangling Prof Saida to death and looting her house, said SI Dipankar Roy.