Benapole: A woman was beaten to death allegedly by her husband at Pulerhat Berbari village in Sadar upazila of Jessore early on Friday.

Quoting local people, Ilias Hossain, the Kotwali Police Officer-in-charge, said Nazir Islam, used to torture his wife Murshida Begum, believed to be in her twenties, for dowry.

Nazir picked up a quarrel with his wife Murshida over the issue and beat her up mercilessly at night, leaving Murshida dead.

Later, Nazir hanged the body of Murshida with a mango tree in a bid to probe it a suicide case.

Being informed, police recovered the body and sent it to Jessore Medical College Hospital.

The body bore several injury marks, said the OC.

Police could not arrest Nazir as he went into hiding.