A Dhaka court has permitted police to conduct DNA profiling and chemical examination of the evidence collected over the mysterious deaths of two siblings at Dhaka’s Rampura.
Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Kamrul Islam issued an order to this effect on Wednesday on a petition by the investigation officer in the case, Rampura Police Station SI Somen Kumar Barua.
The evidence includes pillows, pillow covers, bed sheets, tissue paper and blankets.
On the basis of the order, police will conduct chemical tests of the food from a Chinese restaurant that the siblings took before their deaths.
A court police official told bdnews24.com that the magistrate had ordered the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department’s research and analysis wing to submit a report to the court.
Ishrat Zahan Oroni and her brother Alvi Aman were declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where they were taken in an unconscious state on Monday night.
The family said the children had eaten food at a restaurant on Sunday night and taken home the leftovers. They ate the leftovers on Monday afternoon and went to sleep and did not wake up, they said.
But forensic doctors 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.
Oroni, 14, was a seventh-grader at Viqarunnisa Noon School while Aman, 6, was a student of Holy Crescent School. Their parents are garment trader Amanullah and Mahfuza Maleka.
Meanwhile, the Rapid Action Battalion is bringing the siblings’ parents and an aunt to Dhaka from Jamalpur, where the children were buried, to ‘speak’ with them over the deaths.
The elite police unit earlier held four persons – two security guards of the building the siblings lived in, their house tutor and a relative – for interrogation after forensic doctors said they might have been murdered.
Source: Bd news24
