The daughter of a slain police sleuth and his wife, ‘hiding’ since they were found murdered on Friday, has surrendered to the Paltan Police Station.
Oishee, daughter of the murdered Special Branch (SB) inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and wife Swapna Begum, turned herself in at the Paltan police station at noon on Saturday.
The 11-year old domestic help ‘Shumi’ was reportedly arrested on Saturday evening.
This bdnews24.com crime correspondent saw her being put into a detective police department vehicle.
A police officer told bdnews24.com Oishee came to the Paltan Police Station and identified herself to the officer on duty.
“The OC then took her to the office of Motijheel Zone deputy commissioner.”
From there she was taken to Detective Police office on Minto road. Later, taking her along, a team of detectives has launched an operation.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner (Media) Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com, “Oishee is now in our custody”.
She was missing since her parents’ bodies were found in their house in capital’s Chamelibagh.
Oishee, an O-Level student from the Oxford International School, is the eldest of their two children.
The caretaker of their house said Oishee, took his seven-year old brother Oihee and the house maid Shumi and left on Friday morning.
Oihee was sent back to a relative’s house in a riskshaw in the afternoon.
The phone conversation she had with relatives gave rise to suspicion among investigators.
Oishee came to the station alone—Shumi was not with her.
Mahfuzur Rahman, 45, a Special Branch officer, his wife Swapna Begum, 42, used to live on a fourth-floor flat at Chamelibagh with their two children and a child domestic help.
The couple’s blood-splattered bodies were recovered on Friday evening from a bathroom in the flat, which was locked from outside.
The bodies were reportedly found inside the bathroom attached to Oishi’s room.
Mahfuz’s brother, Monsur Rahman, lodged a case at the Motijheel Police Station on Saturday morning, accusing unnamed persons.
A post-mortem report on Saturday showed that the couple were stabbed to death by more than one ‘amateur killer’.
There were two stab wounds on Mahfuz’s body while Swapna had a total of 11 wounds.
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Forensic department’s Assistant Professor Sohel Mahmud, who conducted the autopsy, said there were ‘at least two or more’ killers .
“The nature of the stab wounds suggests that the killers were amateurs.”
SB Deputy Inspector General Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Friday had suspected hate behind the ‘planned murder’, believed to have been committed by ‘at least four persons’.
DMCH forensic department Assistant Professor Sohel Mahmud said a double-edged knife was used to kill the couple.
Different body parts were also collected for visceral tests.
Source: bdnews24
