The High Court has ordered the government to transfer Oishee Rahman to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University from Kashimpur Women’s Prison for in-depth assessment of her mental condition before and immediately after the murder of her parents and up to her surrender to the police.
It also directed the BSMMU authority to assess a comprehensive history of her drug abuse. However, the court refused to order to produce Oishee’s domestic help Sumi Begum, 11, before it saying the correction centre she was at was a better place for her.
A High Court vacation bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed Wednesday passed the ruling after hearing a writ petition by Jyotirmoy Barua, a Supreme Court lawyer. The court ordered psychiatric counseling for Oishee if required.
The secretaries of home, law and social welfare ministries, the inspector general of police, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, the officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station and the investigation officer on the case were made defendants in the writ.
Oishee, a 19-year-old accused of murdering her parents police Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Begum surrendered to the police on August 17 and was remanded for five days from August 18. She confessed her involvement in the killing on August 25, but later retracted.
