Gazipur: Police arrested the main accused of the father‐daughter suicide case from Karnapur village in Sreepur upazila on Tuesday night.

Sreepur Police Officer-in-charge Asaduzzaman said police arrested Sahid, around 40 years, a neighbour of the victims and son of Nazir Uddin, at night.

Hazrat, in his forties, along with his daughter Ayesha Akhter, around 8 years, committed ‘suicide’ jumping before a moving train near Sreepur

Railway Station on Saturday morning after having failed to get justice as a young man attempted to violate his minor daughter and grab his land.

After the ‘suicide’, Hazrat’s wife Halima Begum filed a case with the local police station making Sahid the main accused.

Halima claimed that some of their neighbours, including Shahid, had long been trying to grab the land of Hazrat, and their only child Ayesha was sexually abused by a neighbour barely three months back.

Hazrat informed Goshinga Union Parishad member Abul Hossain about it and he got depressed as the UP member did not take any step, Halima alleged.