Police are currently questioning her husband Faheem Al Hasan, a Dhaka College student, in connection with the incident.
Sharmin was the daughter of Shahjahan Mollah of Tetoy village of Kachhua upazila of Chandpur.
Ashulia police station quoted Faheem Al Hasan as saying that he had left the house in the morning. When he returned around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, he found the door locked from outside. Upon entering the room, they reportedly found Sharmin unconscious and lying in a pool of blood. With the help of neighbors he took him to the hospital, where the attending doctor declared him dead.
Speaking about the incident, Abdullah Suhrawardy, the owner of the rented house, told Prothom Alo, “I went to the office in the morning. When I came down around 3:00 in the afternoon, I heard the boy saying, ‘Open your eyes, open your eyes.’ Then I entered the room. He said, ‘Uncle, it would be better if Sharmin is taken to the hospital.’ We took him by ambulance to the University Hospital, and from there he was taken to Enam Medical College Hospital. But when he was taken from home, his body was already inert and he had no consciousness.