Police recover a note referring to Tk2.6 lakh debt.
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Police have recovered the bodies of five-month-old twin girls and their 55-year-old father from a locked room at his in-laws’ house in Banshkhali, Chattogram.
A handwritten note referring to Tk2.6 lakh allegedly owed to him by his mother-in-law was also recovered from the scene.
The bodies were recovered this evening (13 November) after police and Fire Service personnel broke open the door of the room at Mowlar Para in Madhyam Pui Chhari village under Pui Chhari union.
The deceased were identified as Jasia Jannat and Jarin Jannat, and their father, Md Jahed. Jahed was the son of the late Badiul Alam, a former acting chairman of Banshkhali Upazila Parishad and former chairman of Chambal Union Parishad.
Police initially suspect that Jahed suffocated his two daughters before committing suicide.
Investigators are examining whether family disputes and financial difficulties contributed to the incident.
Jahed’s wife, Afia Begum, said she and other family members went to a mosque in nearby Napora Villager Para around noon to offer prayers and supplications in fulfilment of a vow made for their twin daughters.
She said they had initially planned to take the children with them, but Jahed objected, so the girls were left at home.
When the family returned in the afternoon, they found the doors and windows of the room shut. Hearing their cries, neighbours rushed to the house, and police and Fire Service personnel were alerted.
Md Abul Bashar, team leader of the Fire Service, said they broke open the locked door and entered the room. They found the bodies of the two children on a bed and Jahed’s body hanging from a concrete pillar, he said.
Mahmudul Hasan, assistant superintendent of police of the Anwara Circle, told TBS that preliminary findings suggested Jahed had suffocated his two daughters before taking his own life.
He said Jahed had no apparent profession and had previously worked in Saudi Arabia. He returned to Bangladesh in 2010 and reportedly supported himself with the money he had earned abroad.
The police officer said investigators recovered a note in which Jahed claimed that his mother-in-law owed him Tk2.6 lakh.
According to preliminary inquiries, Jahed had paid his mother-in-law’s hospital expenses when she underwent surgery seven to eight months ago and later sought reimbursement.
Police questioned his mother-in-law, who said her family was in a difficult financial situation. She had told Jahed that she would repay the money, even if she had to take out a loan, the officer added.
No one has been detained in connection with the incident.
The bodies have been sent to the Chattogram Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsies.
Police have filed an unnatural death case, and investigators said the post-mortem reports would help establish the circumstances of the deaths.
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