Mohammadpur double murder: House help placed on 6-day remand, her husband 3-day
The couple were arrested yesterday morning from Charkoya village in Nalchhiti upazila of Jhalakathi.
Highlights
- Ayesha was placed on a six-day remand and her husband Rabbi on a three-day remand.
- Police had sought a 10-day remand; state lawyers supported it, and no defence lawyer was present.
- The couple were arrested on 10 December from Charkoya village in Nalchhiti.
- Laila Afroze and her daughter Nafisa were hacked to death in their Mohammadpur apartment on 8 December.
- CCTV footage showed Ayesha fleeing in the daughter's school uniform with valuables.
A Dhaka court has granted a six-day remand for domestic worker Mosammat Ayesha, who was arrested in connection with the murder of a mother and daughter in the capital's Mohammadpur area. The court also approved a three-day remand for her husband, Rabbi.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Alam issued the order on Thursday (11 December) after the hearing.
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Earlier, the investigating officer of the case, Mohammadpur Police Station Sub-Inspector Shahidul Osman Masum, produced the accused before the court and sought a 10-day remand.
State lawyers Harunur Rashid and Kaiyum Hossain Nayan argued in favour of the remand petition. After the hearing, the court granted a six-day remand for the domestic worker and a three-day remand for her husband. However, no defence lawyer was present on behalf of the accused.
The couple were arrested yesterday morning (10 December) from Charkoya village in Nalchhiti upazila of Jhalakathi.
On Monday (8 December), Laila Afroze, 48, a homemaker, and her daughter, Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz, 15, were hacked to death inside their apartment on the seventh floor of a building in Shahjahan Road in Mohammadpur. The accused domestic worker, Mosammat Ayesha, fled after the killings.
Following the incident, the victim's husband, AJM Azizul Islam, filed a murder case with Mohammadpur Police Station on the same day, naming domestic worker Ayesha as the accused. Azizul Islam is a teacher at Sunbeams School in Uttara.
In the case statement, he said, "Four days ago, the accused began working at my home as a part-time domestic worker. Around 7am on Monday, I left for my workplace in Uttara. While I was there, I tried repeatedly to contact my wife by phone but failed. Later, having no other option, I returned home at around 11am and found my wife lying dead with deep cuts to her neck and other parts of her body. My daughter was lying critically injured near the main gate of the apartment, with a cut on the right side below her neck. Seeing her condition, I immediately rescued her and sent her to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital with the help of cleaner Md Ashiq. After taking her to the hospital, the doctor on duty declared her dead."
He further stated in the complaint, "After reviewing the CCTV footage of my home, I saw that the accused entered the apartment at 7:51am that day and fled at 9:35am wearing my daughter's school uniform. While leaving, she took a mobile phone, a laptop, gold jewellery, cash and other valuables."
