A Chittagong court sends two more people detained over the murder of SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu to jail.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says SP Babul Akter was taken to DB office for facilitating the interrogation of the suspects arrested in connection with the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.

Seven to eight criminals took part in the murder of SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in exchange for money they received through a middleman, police said yesterday.

Police superintendent Babul Akter has been quizzed to ascertain whether he had any link with the murder of his wife, who was stabbed and shot to death early this month in Chittagong, police and family sources said yesterday.

A total of 21 suspected militants are arrested during a special crackdown throughout the country through yesterday, police headquarters say.

A Chittagong court places two suspects, arrested in connection with the murder of SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, on seven-day remand.

The investigation officer (IO) of police official’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case has been changed. Kamruzzaman, an assistant commissioner of Detective Branch (DB), has been given charge of the case in place of DB Inspector Rakibuddin.

In a mysterious statement, Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, condemns the murder of Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, says SITE Intelligence Group. The Daily Star could not verify the claim.

Cops claim to have detained a man seen in CCTV footage to be talking on mobile phone and following Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, before her murder in Chittagong city on June 5.

A youth is held with knives from a demonstration in Chittagong arranged for the militancy-fighting slain police official’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu. The organisers catch Md Ibrahim, 20, around 4:00pm for his suspicious movement, our local correspondent reports.

Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, the slain wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, did not receive any text message on her mobile phone that asked her son to be at school half an hour earlier than usual due to assembly, police say.

Those who had killed and burnt hundreds of people in 2013 and 2014 to foil the last national elections have now taken the path of “secret killings”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tells the Jatiya Sangsad.

Footage of a close-circuit camera shows three suspected killers of wife of Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter flee by a motorcycle after accomplishing their mission.

Four persons were detained in connection with the gruesome killing of a police officer’s wife in Chittagong, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.

Police officer Babul Akter led several anti-militancy drives, arrested many key militants, busted their dens and eventually foiled their attack plans. And these could be the reasons behind the murder of his wife in the port city yesterday, senior police officials said.

CCTV footage shows three suspected killers fleeing after the murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of a top police official in Chittagong. One of them had a pistol in his hand.

Hours into the killing of a police official’s wife in Chittagong city, police say they suspect militant link to the murder. Motorbike riding assailants reportedly stabbed and shot dead Mahmuda Khanam Mitu near to her residence.