Dhaka, March 12 -- Police arrested a couple in connection with the killing of Habibullah Bahar College's Vice Principal (VP) Saifur Rahman Bhuiyan at his rented house in Uttar Khan area of Dhaka.

The couple -- Mohammad Nazim Hossain, 21, and his wife Rupa Begum, alias Jannati, 23, -- was arrested from Faridpur Railway Station on Tuesday morning.

Md Mohidul Islam, deputy commissioner (DC-Uttara zone) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), revealed this at a press conference at the DMP's Media Centre at the city's Mintoo Road on Wednesday morning.

He said they arrested the couple from Faridpur with the help of local police 12 hours after the victim's younger brother had filed a case in this regard.

During the primary interrogation, the...