The Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test has been completed in the case filed over the highly discussed rape and subsequent murder by slitting the throat of eight-year-old slain child in Pallabi of the capital's Mirpur.
Consequently, the chargesheet for this case may be submitted to the court by Sunday.
The investigating officer of the case, Pallabi Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Ohiduzzaman, said on Saturday that the DNA test has been completed. If the report is received on Saturday, it will be possible to submit the chargesheet in this case. "We hope to submit the chargesheet tomorrow," he said.
Meanwhile, the accused, Sohel Rana, who was arrested last Wednesday, gave a confessional statement in court admitting his guilt.
The killer stated in his confession that he had consumed Yaba before the incident. On that day, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Islam Junaid recorded the confessional statement of accused Sohel Rana under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Later, the court ordered him to be sent to jail.
In his confession, Sohel stated that after consuming drugs, he raped and murdered eight-year-old girl in his bathroom after his wife, Swapna, lured the child into their room. When the victim's mother began knocking on the door, Sohel slit slain child throat, mutilated and dismembered her body to hide it under the bed, and kept her head in a bucket. His wife witnessed the crime, and Sohel later fled through a cut window grill, noting they had no prior enmity with the family.
According to case sources, the slain girl was a second-grade student, was lured into the accused's room by Swapna on Tuesday. After noticing her shoes outside the room during a frantic search, her parents and neighbours broke open the door to discover her headless body on the bedroom floor and her head inside a bucket. Following a 999 emergency call, police detained Swapna at the scene and later used tech tracking to arrest her husband, Sohel Rana, outside a police station in Narayanganj.
Regarding this incident, the victim's father, Abdul Hannan Molla, filed a case as the plaintiff with Pallabi Police Station on Wednesday. The police produced them before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon.
The investigating officer of the case then submitted two separate petitions to the court. One was to record the confessional statement of the accused, Sohel, while the other petition requested to keep Sohel's wife, Swapna, detained in jail.
The petition stated that on Tuesday, eight-year-old student slain girl was lured into Swapna Akhter’s flat. An hour later, her searching parents spotted her shoes outside the room; after receiving no response, they and neighbors broke down the door to find victim's headless body on the bedroom floor and her head inside a large bucket.
When questioned at the scene, Swapna Akhter revealed that her husband, Md Sohel Rana, had confined, raped, and murdered slain girl by slitting her throat. She detailed how he then dismembered, mutilated, and hid the body under the bed, while placing the severed head inside a bucket to conceal the crime.
Afterward, the accused Sohel Rana fled by cutting the window grill of the room. Later, the police arrested Sohel Rana from front of Fatullah Police Station in Narayanganj district. When brought to the police station and interrogated in detail, he confessed to the incident.
