TANGAIL: Police administration on Saturday announced Tk 100,000 bounty to detain the prime suspect--Jahangir Hossain--in the killing case of a woman and her three daughters in Tangail Tuesday.

Dhaka range deputy inspector general of police SM Mahfuzul Haque Nuruzzaman made the announcement while exchanging view with journalists at Mirzapur upazila.

District superintendent of police Saleh Mohammad Tanvir were also present at the function.

Law enforcers, however, have not managed to trace Jahangir yet since the killings took place, but detained 10 accused were granted remand for questioning.

On Tuesday, stalkers allegedly led-by Jahangir torched the house of Malaysian expatriate Mojibur Rahman pouring petrol and burnt his wife and three daughters alive at Dakkhin Sohagpara village under Mirzapur upazila of the district.

The victims were Mojibur’s wife Hasna Begum, 30, and his three daughters, Monira, 14, Mim, 6, and Moly, 4.

On Thursday morning, victims’ relatives and neighbors told banglanews that Jahangir, son of Bahar Uddin of nearby house, had long been proposing to Monira, which the girl and her family had been refusing.

Several days ago, Jahangir and his cohorts attacked Monira’s house as she (Monira) refused his proposal. The family lodged a general diary (GD) at Mirzapur Thana following the attack. 

After filing GD, Jahangir along with his associates set fire to tin-shed house of Mojibur, pouring petrol through windows to avenge the refusal.

Sensing the fire, neighbors rushed in but failed to douse the flame. Later, fire fighters brought the fire under control and recovered burnt-bodies of the mother and three daughters inside the house.

BDST: 1600 HRS, OCT 11, 2014