Mohammadpur double murder: Housemaid Ayesha's husband gives confessional statement
Metropolitan Magistrate Ripon Hossain recorded the statement
Rabbi, the husband of housemaid Ayesha Akhter, who was arrested in connection with the gruesome murders of a mother and daughter in Mohammadpur, gave a confessional statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) before a magistrate in Dhaka today (15 December).
Metropolitan Magistrate Ripon Hossain recorded the statement.
Investigation Officer Sub-Inspector Shahidul Osman Masum of Mohammadpur Police Station produced Rabbi before the court after he was remanded for three days and sought permission to record the statement.
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Following the recording of his statement, the court sent Rabbi to jail.
Ayesha Akhter was remanded for six days in the same case, which continues.
Police on 10 December arrested Ayesha, a domestic worker who had been employed at the flat for only four days, during a drive in Nalchiti upazila of Jhalakathi.
The victims—Layla Afroz, 48, and her daughter Nafisa Binte Aziz, 15—were found dead earlier by Layla's husband, AZM Azizul Islam, after he rushed home from the school he teaches at.
Later that night, Azizul Islam filed a case with Mohammadpur Police Station in connection with the incident.
Ayesha had started working at the flat just four days earlier, and her suspicious movements recorded on the apartment block's CCTV cameras, showing her leaving the house dressed in Nafisa's school uniform and wearing a mask, made her the prime suspect.
She was traced down and arrested along with her husband from his grandmother's home in Jhalakathi, where they went into hiding
