Investigators yesterday said they were puzzled about the normal behaviour of the mother who was accused of killing her two children on last Monday afternoon.
Mahfuza Malek Jesmin, 35, on the first day of remand again told police that she had murdered her two children, investigators said yesterday.
She gave almost the identical confession during the interrogation by RAB members on Thursday night.
Officer-in-Charge of Rampura police station Rafiqual Islam told the Dhaka Tribune that the accused stuck to her earlier confession and did not divulge any other information on the killings.
He said as the grandmother was the only person present on the flat apart from the three, police would question the grandmother too.
Afroza Akhter Mili, younger sister of Mahfuza, told journalists at her flat in Road 5 of Banasree that her sister could never kill her children only from depression over their upcoming future.
She said her daughter was also studying at the same school with Oroni and her child got the fourth place in the class. As she reprimanded her daughter for her being fourth Mahfuza then pacified Afroza and advised her not to scold her children.
Seeking anonymity the family members said they didn’t believe in what Mahfuza said. Her husband Amanullah is currently staying at a relative’s house at Rampura.
During the primary interrogation Mahfuza again confessed that she did it out of depression about the sibling’s future, said Rampura Police Inspector (operation) Mustafizur Rahman yesterday.
He also told Dhaka Tribune that Mahfuza’s statements are nearly identical. "But we’ll probe whether there are any other motives behind the murder of the children."
Asked, he also said Mahfuza’s behaviour was natural and she was normal when we interrogated her.
Earlier, Nusrat Aman Oroni, 14, and her brother Alvi Aman, 6, were found unconscious at their Banasree home in Dhaka on the afternoon of Feb 29. They were declared dead after being rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The RAB brought the parents from Jamalpur to the capital on Wednesday. The elite force on Thursday said Mahfuza had confessed to killing her two children “out of anxiety over their education and future”.
A Dhaka court on Friday placed her in remand for five days for questioning by police.