Body of a man, severed into eight pieces, was recovered from a house in Krishnapur area of Pabna town Tuesday night.

Law enforcers arrested the victim's cousin from the house in this connection.

The deceased was identified as Akteruzzaman, 32, son of Faruk Molla of Nandia village in Kushtia's Mirpur upazila. He worked as a sales executive of a company in the town.

Arrestee Raheduzzaman, 30, of the same village, lived with Akteruzzaman on the ground floor of the latter's home in Krishnapur, said Abdulla Al Hasan, officer-in-charge of Pabna Sadar Police Station.

The victim's colleagues said the last time Akteruzzaman went to work was on May 2. They informed police about him not showing up for work and his phone being turned off.

Police on Tuesday night went to his home and found Raheduzzaman. They quizzed him over the victim's whereabouts but he failed to give any proper answer, the OC said.

The law enforcers kept on questioning him and at one point he brought the body parts kept in a sack from inside the house, he added.

During primary interrogation, Raheduzzaman admitted that he killed his cousin forTk 5,000, said Alamgir Kabir, superintendent of Pabna police.

Aktaruzzaman borrowed Tk 5,000 from Raheduzzaman a few days ago. Raheduzzaman had been asking for the money back but he refused to pay, the SP said, quoting the arrestee.

Around 11:00pm on Tuesday, the two locked in an altercation over the money. At one stage, enraged Raheduzzaman smacked Aktaruzzaman on the head with a heavy object, leaving him dead on the spot, he said.

Later, Raheduzzaman cut the body into eight pieces so that he could dump the body easily, the police official added quoting the cousin.

Asked if a person could kill just for Tk 5,000, the SP said the arrestee, during primary interrogation, "confessed to the killing for the money". He, however, said that they were investigating the incident.

"The arrestee will be taken into remand for further interrogation. Police will probe the incident from different angles to find out the exact reason behind the murder," SP Alamgir said, adding that they would also try to find if anyone else was involved.

A case was filed against Raheduzzaman with Pabna Police Station. The body parts were sent to Pabna Medical College morgue for an autopsy yesterday, police said.