News Desk | Dhaka24:
The detainee, Maleka Begum (27), hacked husband to death over marital disputes and later informed the police confessing to her crime. Maleka was the third wife of Shariful Islam (40)

Police arrested a woman on Monday (September 23) for hacking her husband to death in Bogula of Sadar Upazila, Thakurgaon.

According to the police sources, the detainee, Maleka Begum hacked him to death over some marital disputes and later informed the police confessing to her crime. Shariful was accused in two Women and Child Repression Prevention Act cases, filed by two of his wives including Maleka, for domestic violence. And Maleka too was accused in one of the cases with Shariful, filed by his second wife.

Maleka said to media, she killed her husband accidentally while trying to save herself from Shariful's abuse.

Sadar police station OC Ashikur Rahman said: "We sent the dead body to Thakurgaon morgue for autopsy. A case in under process."