Police have charged an engineer couple with the murder of a 12-year-old domestic help called Zakir, who was found dead on April 4, at their house in Chittagong city.
They charged the couple with the murder in a charge sheet submitted before Chittagong Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Kotwali police station Sub-Inspector Mohammad Kamruzzaman, who is investigating the domestic help’s death, had submitted the charge sheet.
The couple he has charged with the murder are Engineer Nowshad Zaman, 39, of a non-government organisation and his wife Engineer Dilruba Chowdhury, 35.
Investigation Officer Kamruzzaman mentioned 11 persons as prosecution witnesses in the charge sheet.
He said Zakir had worked at the engineer couple’s residence for a year where the ill-fated boy had faced mental and physical torture most of the time without any reason or for his fault in household chores.
“On April 4, the couple strangulated the boy, but made a suicide drama to hide their offence,” said SI Kamruzzaman; adding that police found the fact after a long investigation.
The 12-year-old domestic help, Md Zakir, son of Nur Hossain, hailing from Laxmipur, was killed at the residence of the engineer couple while the police initially termed the incident as a suicidal incident.
But, the post mortem report of the dead body said that Zakir was strangulated to death.
As police lodged an unnatural death case with Kotwali Police Station in this connection, they pleaded before the court to shift the case into murder case and the case was shifted to a murder case on April 23.
Police nabbed husband Nowshad on April 4 and Dilruba was nabbed on April 24, however, she was released from the prison on bail.
