Upon completion of investigation into the murders of Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman, the Detective Branch of Police yesterday pressed two charge sheets against Oishee, the couple’s only daughter, and three others.
The other accused are Oishee’s friends Asaduzzaman Jony, 27, and Mizanur Rahman Rony, 25, and domestic help Khadiza Akter Sumi, 11.
Oishee, an O level student of Oxford International School, her boyfriend Jony and Rony are now in prison for their complicity in the killings. Sumi is at the National Juvenal Correction Centre in Gazipur.
DB Inspector Abu Al Khair Matubbar, also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheets before the Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court.
Of the two, one charge sheet is against Oishee and her friends while the other against Sumi separately as she is now under 18-year-old.
According to the charge sheets, Oishee is the lone accused in the case who killed her parents while Jony and Rony were chargesheeted for instigating and giving her shelter. Sumi has been accused of assisting Oishee in hiding the bodies.
Before killing the couple at the night on August 14 last year, Oishee fed them sedatives along with coffee.
The investigators said he had final ised the charges after getting evidence of Oishee’s presence in the murder scene from DNA report.
Earlier the bodies of the couple were recovered their Chamelibagh residence in the capital on August 16 last year. Twenty-two hours later, Oishee turned up at Paltan police station. Later, detectives arrested Jony, Rony and the domestic help the same day. On August 24, Oishee and Sumi gave confessional statements before a magistrate. The murder case was filed by Mahfuz’s brother Moshiur Rahman with Paltan police station against some unnamed people.
The charge sheet says: “Oishee had plans to go Dubai alone with her boyfriend Jony two months before the murder and for that she demanded Tk30,000 from her father. But Mahfazur prevented his daughter from going to Dubai.
“After getting more freedom, Oishee became obsessed with external environment and she was losing interest in her family. So she considered her parents’ behaviour as brutal regime.”
One month before the incident, Oishee had lived 15 days with Jony at a rented house in Rampura area. She planned to kill her parents during that time, says the charge sheet.
“Oishee come back to her Chamelibagh residence 15 days before the murder. Then her parents imposed restrictions on her movement and use of mobile phone. Later Oishee finely killed her parents.”
The investigator named 57 people as witnesses while mentioned about 80 kinds of sample in the charges sheets.
IO Abul Khair said: “The charge sheet against Sumi was submitted before the court separately as she is minor. Her trial will be held at a juvenile court.”
On January 19, a Dhaka court sent Oishee to jail after rejecting her bail petition. So far, she has been denied bail four times.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
