The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Momena Ahmed, writer, publisher and ex-librarian of Udayan School was stubbled to death at her Dhanmondi apartment in the city yesterday. She was 65.

She was the wife of the late chairman of Dhaka University's Applied Physics Department Sultan Ahmed.

The police arrested a youth, named Faruq, on charge of his alleged involvement in her killing.

Security guards held Faruq and handed him over to the police.

A housemaid said Momena was going to take rest in her room after lunch. Faruq used to come to Momena's apartment regularly from the latter's village. The housemaid said she saw the body of Momena when she entered her room. Faruq was held when he was fleeing the apartment soon after the incident. Quoting Momena's relatives, the police said the killing might have take palace following her row with a publishing house.

Sub-inspector of Dhanmondi police station Monwar Hossain said the police would investigate the alleged link of the publisher in the killing.

Momena's husband Prof Sultan Ahmed died in 1994.

A case was filed in this connection with the Dhanmondi Police Station.