Police on Friday night recovered a body of a woman from the emergency department of National Institute of Cardio-Vascular Diseases (NICVD). She was brought and left by three unidentified persons, police and NICVD officials said.

Post mortem report of Dhaka Medical College says the deceased Sonia, also known as Rinky, 24, was strangled to death.

Rinky's relatives suspect that her husband Jobair, who is now on bail in a case in connection with torturing her, might have killed her.

“Three persons brought her here and immediately left,” NICVD ward master Hamidul Haque quoted his staff as saying. Hamidul filed an unnatural death case in this connection.

Azim Uddin, sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, said they started investigating the case, but have yet to get any clue to arrest anyone.

Khandker Zahirul Islam, a relative of Rinky, said Jobair and Rinky got married in 2001 following an affair. But Jobair used to pressurise

and torture Rinky, an orphan, for dowry.

About six months ago, Jobair beat Rinky and drove her out of their house keeping their only son with him. Following this, Rinky filed a case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act against her husband, Islam told The Daily Star.

Jobair was sent to jail following his arrest but was released on parole over a month ago for 15 days, which was later extended by another month, he said.

Rinky was trying to get her son back.

“Receiving a phone call from her husband promising to take her to their son Joy, 5, Rinky went out,” he quoted his wife as saying. Rinky came to visit Zahirul Islam, her brother-in-law, in his Motijheel bank colony house on Wednesday.

An anonymous caller, who identified himself to be form NICVD, informed Islam later in the evening that a body was lying there and asked him to see if it was any of his relative's.

He then went to the institute and identified the body, he said.