Police have arrested Safiullah, an extra-marital lover of the mother Rima Begum, in a case filed by her husband in connection with the murder of two children in Ashuganj, Brahmanbaria.
Ashuganj police arrested him from Abdullahpur in Dhaka around 5:15 pm on Monday (March 26).
Details will be disclosed through a press briefing around 9 pm, he added.
According to media reports, Rima Begum worked as a labourer in a flat. There she formed an illicit relationship with Safiullah, who promised to marry her. On March 10, Rima provided her two minor sons with poisoned sweets. When they feel sick, she bought Napa syrup from the local pharmacy and fed them. Later, she claimed that the two children died of consuming the syrup.