Police detained the main accused of the father-daughter suicide case at village Karnapur of Sripur upazila in Gazipur on Tuesday night.
Officer-in-charge of Sripur police station Asaduzzaman said police held Sahid, 40, a neighbour of the victims and son of Nazir Uddin, at night.
Hazrat, 45, along with his daughter Ayesha Akhter, 8, committed ‘suicide’ jumping before a moving train near Sripur 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 citing Sahid as 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.