Killing of people by relatives on the rise:Daily Sun

  Incidents of killing people by their relatives have increased in different parts of the country for the last few weeks as such killings are taking place almost every day. Lack of understanding between husband and wife, extramarital affair, dispute over land and other family feuds are mainly responsible for such killings, analysts said. Killing of husband by his wife, wife by her husband and pare
nts by their sons and daughters has now become a common scenario, giving a dismal picture of family ties and social values. On October 20, a middle-aged man was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in Mirpur area of the capital. The deceased was identified as Giasuddin, 40. Police suspect that Giasuddin’s wife Lovely Akhter might have involved with the killing as she had extramarital affairs. On October 19, a son allegedly killed his parents at Niltek village in Shingair upazila of Manikganj district. The deceased were identified as Mohiuddin Pramanik, 60, a rickshaw-puller and his wife Shufia Khatun, 50. The killer son, Saidur Rahman, 30, was locked in an altercation with his father over distribution of their property. At one stage, Saidur swooped on his father and stabbed him to death, police said. On October 16, a woman hacked her husband to death in the city’s Kalyanpur area and hid the body inside the wardrobe in their house. A day after the incident, the killer wife Laboni surrendered to the police and confessed that she killed her husband out of anger as he married again. On October 6, a man named Dudu Mia was killed by her wife Shahnaz Begum in Raujan of Chittagong. After the killing, Shahnaz, 32, kept the body underground. Police recovered the body after 10 days of the incident. Shahnaz told police that she killed her husband as he had an extramarital affair. She also said, “My husband used to quarrel with me over family issues. He gave me no money.” On October 8, miscreants made an attempt to kill the whole family by setting fire to the house of college teacher Khalilur Rahman at Kolaroa under Satkhira district. A relative of the family was allegedly involved in the incident. A pregnant housewife was severely beaten allegedly by the uncle of her husband over land dispute at Mirpur in Kushtia on the night of the same day. She succumbed to injuries on Wednesday night. Crime analysts say that such incidents are increasing due to erosion of family of ties. To check such crimes, they stress the need for strengthening family relations. Contacted, Md Azharul Islam, a teacher of counselling psychology department at Dhaka University, said long-lasting problem between family members lead to such killings. “When report of an incident (murder by family members) comes to the media there causes a chain reaction. A depressed family member may get encouraged by seeing this kind of news,” he added. “We have to be careful about publishing this sort of news in the media,” he observed.