A dhaka court has granted police five days to question Mahfuza Malek Jasmine, a woman accused of killing her two children at their Rampura home in Dhaka on Feb 29.
Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakrabarty sent her to police custody on Friday.
Rampura police Inspector Mustafizur Rahman presented Jasmine before the court and sought a 10-day remand to quiz her.
The court rejected her bail plea, but approved only a five-day remand after a brief hearing in a case lodged by Jasmine’s husband Amanullah.
Her lawyer Md Safayet Ali told the court that Jasmine needed psychological treatment, which could not be provided if she was remanded.
Several lawyers present at the hearing opposed his argument and asked him to withdraw from the case.
As the judge ordered her remand, Jasmine, looking tired, remained quiet. She did not respond to any questions from journalists before and after the hearing.
On Thursday, RAB said during preliminary interrogation that Jasmine had confessed to strangling her children.
RAB’s spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan claimed Jasmine was ‘mentally sound’ when she ‘admitted’ to killing the children.
“She was worried over her children’s education and future and at one point strangled them to death.”
Amanullah, father of the children, filed the murder case against her with Rampura police that night.
The RAB had detained and brought the couple to Dhaka from Jamalpur after the children were buried there on Wednesday.
Jasmine’s brother, Zakir Hossain Sarker refuted the RAB claim and said, “My sister cannot kill anyone. She loved her children very much.”
He demanded a ‘proper’ investigation into the deaths.
Nusrat Aman Oroni, 14, and her brother Alvi Aman, 6, were found unconscious at their Banasree home on the afternoon of Feb 29.
Doctors declared them dead after they were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The family had claimed that they had died after eating leftovers brought from a local Chinese restaurant where they had dined the previous night.
But forensic experts at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital found bruises and finger prints on their throats as well as injury marks on several parts of their bodies during the autopsy the next day.
Source: Bd news24
