A Dhaka court on Thursday placed the managing director and chairman of a pest control company over the alleged death of two siblings from pesticide poisoning.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed placed DCS Organization Limited Chairman Ashrafuzzaman and Managing Director Farhadul Amin on a three-day remand.
Both of them were arrested from Brahmanbaria on Thursday by the Detective Branch (DB) of the Bangladesh Police.
Meanwhile, on June 6, a spray man, Titu Molla, was arrested and placed on a two-day remand.
A case was filed against the pest control company by the father of the two boys, Mobarak Hossain, with Dhaka's Vatara police station.
Vatara police station Officer-in-Charge ABM Asaduzzaman said the autopsy of the two siblings have been completed and the bodies were handed over to the family.
According to police and family sources, some employees of a pest control company went to the family's house in Dhaka's Bashundhara residential area on June 2.
The family entered the house some 15 hours after the service was completed, despite the company assuring them that they go after only six hours.
All of the family members allegedly fell sick from the effects of the spray the company used.
Shahir Mobarrat Zayan, 9, died at the house the same day, and Shayan Mobarrat Zahin, 15, died while undergoing treatment at the ICU of Dhaka's Evercare Hospital, said General Manager of Ever Care Hospital Arif Mahmud.
The parents of the siblings were also hospitalized, but fortunately, their condition did not deteriorate any further.