Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- Police have found several handwritten notes during the recovery of the hanged body of Mariam Jhatun, the second wife of controversial lawmaker Gazi Nazrul Islam, an expelled member of Jamaat-e-Islami.

Police recovered the body of Mariam, Nazrul's second wife, from an apartment at the NAM Bhaban across from the parliament complex on Sunday evening.

Tejgaon Division Additional Deputy Commissioner Fazlul Karim said, "Some notes written by Mariam were recovered from the room where she lived."

At night, police took lawmaker Nazrul and his first wife, Maksuda Khanam, into custody in connection with the recovery of Mariam's hanging body.

Later that night, Mariam's father, SM Masum Billah, filed a case accusing lawmaker Naz...