A Dhaka court has granted five days of remand to the mother who confessed to strangling her two children to death at their Banasree residence.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakrabarti passed the order after Investigating Officer Md Mustafizur Rahman produced Mahfuza Malek Jesmin before the court with a 10-day remand plea on Friday afternoon.
Father of the victims Amanullah filed a murder case against Mahfuza on Thursday night.
Fourteen-year-old Nusrat Jahan and six-year-old Alvi Aman were declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after they had been brought there unconscious on February 29.
At the time, family members claimed that the children had fallen asleep after having leftover Chinese food for lunch and did not wake up.
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Conflicting accounts of the incident given by the parents and family members led forensics experts on Wednesday to suspect that the two siblings from Dhaka’s Banasree neighbourhood might have been murdered.
Mahfuza’s decision to stay at home while her children were taken to a nearby hospital was described by investigators as “unusual and suspicious.”
The result of post-mortem examinations at Dhaka Medical College hinted at foul play.
Injury marks were found on the children’s necks. The boy also had injury marks on his legs and his sister had eye injuries.