Published: 12:15 AM, 22 September 2026
Gazi Nazrul, first wife remanded over second wife's death
A Dhaka court on Monday placed MP Gazi Nazrul Islam on a four-day remand and his first wife Maksuda Begum on one day remand in a case filed over abetting the death of his second wife, Mariam Khatun.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ehsanul Islam passed the order when Shamsuzzoha, sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station and also the investigating officer of the case, produced them before the court with seven-day remand prayer.
SM Masum Billah, father of the victim, filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station against Gazi Nazrul, Maksuda and Obaidur Rahman under Section 306 of the Penal Code, which deals with abetment of suicide.
According to the remand petition, the MP, an expelled Jamaat leader, and his first wife were put on remand to investigate the suspected role of the accused in instigating, provoking, pressuring, intimidating, or otherwise inducing the victim to commit suicide.
Earlier in the day, police produced the MP before the court around 3:11 pm wearing bullet proof jacket and helmet.
The body of Nazrul's second wife Mosammat Mariam Khatun, 19, was found hanging at NAM Bhaban in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Sunday evening.
