Gias Uddin Sheikh planned to kill his wife and two children in a planned manner to get rid of the debt burden on his wife in Belabat, Narsingdi, and to trap his opponent. The real secret of the murder came out in the investigation by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).
At a press conference on Tuesday (May 24) afternoon, PBI Narsingdi Police Superintendent Enayet Hossain Mannan gave a detailed account of the murder based on information provided by the accused.
Painter Gias Sheikh, who brutally murdered his wife Rahima Begum (36), son Rabbi Sheikh (12) and daughter Rakiba Sheikh (7) late on Saturday (May 21) night, stabbed them and beat them with a cricket bat before fleeing. Police recovered the bodies from the scene on Sunday (May 22) morning after receiving information. Later, he returned home and tried to blame the murder on his opponent.
At that time, he expressed suspicion to law enforcement and media personnel that his cousin might have committed the murder due to a border dispute.
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) detained him for questioning as his statements, including his stay outside the home for professional work, were suspicious. During initial questioning, Gias Uddin Sheikh confessed to killing his wife and children.
PBI said that the accused Gias Uddin Sheikh is addicted to gambling. In addition to being a victim of gambling, he took a loan of about 10 lakh taka from several NGOs in the name of his wife. He has to pay 22-23 thousand taka in installments every month. Gias Uddin had the idea that if the person in whose name the loan was taken dies, the loan money would be forgiven. On the other hand, he recently had a land dispute with a person named Renu Mia from his neighbor's house. Thinking that he would save himself from the loan money by killing his wife and frame his opponent who had a dispute over the land, Gias Uddin first killed his wife Rahima Begum and then his two children.
Gias Uddin, the sole accused in the case, confessed to the murder in the court of Narsingdi Senior Judicial Magistrate Rakibul Haque on Monday (May 23) afternoon and gave a statement under Section 164. The court later ordered him to be sent to jail.
After his arrest, based on the information he provided, the PBI recovered the knife used in the murder from the Gangajali Beel of the village and a blood-stained cricket bat from the forest.
PBI's Enayet Hossain Mannan said that professional gambler Gias Uddin Sheikh is not sane unless he has gambling money in his hand. In addition, information has been found that he regularly talks to a woman on the phone. Keeping these facts in mind, it is being investigated whether anyone else is involved in this brutal murder.
