Oishee Rahman’s friend Johny alias Rony was arrested on Wednesday, because he is suspected of being involved in the double murder of her parents, Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Rahman.
A Detective Branch (DB) team detained him from Badda in the capital.
On Thursday, he was produced at the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court by law enforcers who sought his remand. The court granted five day remand for police to question him in relation to the ongoing investigation.
On August 16, police broke into the Chamelibagh flat where Rahman lived and found the bodies of Mahfuzur, a Special Branch (SB) inspector, and his wife Swapna. The next day, their daughter Oishee, came to a police station seeking help, and handed over to DB.
She confessed to killing her parents but later claimed she had confessed under duress and her lawyer petitioned the court seeking to retract her confessional statement.
Initially, Oishee said when she was lead astray by Johny and his wife Irin, who pushed drugs on her, and when her mother tried to restrict her from associating with them she became angry and decided to kill her parents.
Following her arrest, she named Johny as one of her accomplices and he went into hiding when police began to search for him in connection with the parricide incident.
