Body recovered in capital

Staff Correspondent

Police recovered the body of a man from Farmgate area in the capital yesterday.

The deceased was identified as Md Anis, 45, a small vegetable trader in Kawran Bazar.

Nazrul Islam, sub-inspector at Tejgaon Police Station, said they recovered the body, bearing stab injury marks, lying on a footpath adjacent to the Anawara Park in the area around 7:00am.

Police suspect that Anis was killed by some miscreants around 12:30am to 5:30am.

A knife was also recovered from the spot.

The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College

BSF yet to return two Bangladeshis

Staff Correspondent, syihet

Two Bangladeshis, abducted by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) from Lalakhal border of Jaintapur upazila in Syihet on Friday afternoon, were yet to be released as of yesterday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sources said Shahabuddin, 35, of Borobond village and Ebad, 32, of Churkhai village under Kanaight upazila in Syihet, were picked up by the Indian force when the men were returning from their relatives' house on the bordering village Bagchhara.

Lt Col Md Shafiul Azam, commanding officer at 5 battalion of BGB in Syihet, said the BSF admitted that it picked up the men suspecting them to be involved in timber smuggling.

The BSF assured of returning the men soon, he said.

Girl found killed in capital

Staff Correspondent

Police recovered the decomposed body of a newly married girl from her husband's house at Bhatara in the capital yesterday.

Aleya, 18, hailing from Sherpur, lived with her husband Md Mamun, 38, of Noakhali, in the rented house.

On information from the house owner, police recovered the body, with a scarf wrapped around the neck and lying on the floor, from the tin-shed house after breaking open the door around 10:00am.

Police said the house had been locked from the outside for the last three days, adding that Aleya

Housewife dies after beating by her husband

Staff Correspondent

A woman died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday and police are searching for her husband, who allegedly beaten her near to death four days ago.

Farzana Begum, 27, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night in a critical condition by her husband Mukthar Hossain. She was declared dead around 8:00am.

Police and locals said Farzana was brutally beaten up by her husband for not informing him that she went to a neighbour's home to watch television.

Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge at Kalabagan Police Station, said they were trying arrest Muktar, who apparently fled the area after admitting his