A Dhaka court yesterday once more placed Mahfuza Malek Jasmine on five-day remand in a case filed over the murder of her two children in the capital’s Banasree area.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order after DB inspector Lokman Hakim, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced Mahfuza before the court seeking 10-day remand for interrogation.
Mahfuza’s counsel Safayet Ali filed a bail petition with the remand rejection petition before the court.
After hearing, the court also rejected Mahfuza’s bail petition of Mahfuza in this case.
Earlier, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakraborty placed Mahfuza on five-day remand after Rampura police produced her before the court on March 4 with a 10-day remand prayer for interrogation.
According to the case documents, Nusrat Aman Aroni, 14, and her brother Alvi Aman, 6, were found unconscious at their flat and were declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on February 29.
Three days later, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) told journalists that they were killed by their mother out of her concern about their future. And that Mahfuza had made up a food-poisoning story to cover up her crime.
According to RAB, she first strangled her daughter Nusrat and then son Alvi. Following the revelation, the siblings’ father Amanullah filed a murder case against his wife with Rampura police station.
On March 2, RAB brought out the children’s parents and an aunt, Mahfuza’s sister Afroza Malek Mila, from their hometown in Jamalpur for questioning.