Dhaka, May 9 -- A 3-year-old boy was asleep. His mother Shilpi Khatun had left him with his father and gone to a pharmacy to buy medicine for herself.

A short while later, she returned home and found her son Habib dead.

Police recovered Habib's body from Dhaka's Beraid on Apr 27 and detained his father, identified only as Shahin.

The following day, the mother's maternal aunt Balika Begum filed a murder case at Badda Police Station.

Shahin was later shown arrested in the case and produced before a court.

According to the case details, Shahin and his wife Shilpi lived in a rented house in Beraid with their two sons. Around 9.30pm on Apr 17, Shilpi went out to buy medicine.

Once she left the house, Shahin bolted the door and strangled ...