A Dhaka court has sent Mahfuza Malek Jesmin, who confessed to strangling her two children to death, to jail.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi passed the order after Mahfuza was produced before the court after completion of five days remand on Sunday afternoon.
The court sources said Mahfuza has confessed to killing her children. However, when asked who helped her in the killing, Mahfuza denied to reply.
Father of the victims Amanullah filed the murder case against Mahfuza with Rampura police. 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.
During interrogation, she told RAB that a bout of depression brought on by anxiety about the siblings’ future had caused her to murder them.
