DHAKA, 31 May 2021, (TON): Azharul Islam was stabbed to death inside Sardarbari Jame Mosque at Dhaka’s Dakkhinkhan on 25 May. The wife of a man killed inside Sardarbari Jame Mosque in Dakkhinkhan of the capital and the imam of the mosque have given confessional statements in the court.

The investigative officer (IO) of the case produced the duo in the court during remand when they voluntarily agreed to give confessional statements.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Abdur Rahman from the mosque and Asma Akter from Abdullahpur on 25 May.

On 28 May, another Dhaka court granted the IO five days to grill them.

According to the case details, Azhar’s son was a student of the mosque’s Maktab while the father used to learn to read the Quran from imam Abdur Rahman.

In this connection, the imam used to frequent Azhar’s house. Meanwhile, Abdur Rahman engaged in an extramarital affair with Azhar’s wife. When Azhar found out about the affair and confronted imam Abdur Rahman, he became enraged and stabbed Azhar to death in his room inside the mosque on 19 May.

He later dismembered the body and hid in a septic tank of the mosque.

Later, Azhar’s younger brother Hasan filed the case in Dakkhinkhan police station.