A Dhaka court yesterday put Mahfuza Malek Jesmin, who confessed to strangling her two children to death, on a five-day police remand.
Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakrabarty gave the order after Investigation Officer Mustafizur Rahman produced Mahfuza before the court with a 10-day remand plea.
The IO said that they would investigate whether anyone else was involved in the double murder.
Father of the victims Amanullah filed the murder case against Mahfuza with Rampura police on Thursday night. In the case, he mentioned that Mahfuza had been suffering from psychological disorder.
Fourteen-year-old Nusrat Jahan and six-year-old Alvi Aman were declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after they were taken there unconscious on February 29. At the time, Mahfuza claimed that the children had fallen asleep after having leftover Chinese food for lunch and did not wake up.
After post-mortem examinations, doctors said that injury marks were found on the children’s necks. The boy also had injury marks on his legs and his sister had eye injuries.
Polices yesterday said that Mahfuza had given confusing statements to the Rapid Action Battalion.
During interrogation, she told RAB that a bout of depression brought on by anxiety about the siblings’ future had caused her to murder them.
Earlier, RAB claimed that Mahfuza had killed her children over an extramarital affair, and psychological and social disorder. But the elite force later said that it had not found evidence of an affair.
