State seeks death penalty for Oishee

The government has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, seeking death penalty for Oishee Rahman in the sensational case filed over killing her parents in 2013.

The attorney general's office recently submitted the appeal to Appellate Division of the SC, challenging a High Court verdict that had commuted Oishee's death sentence to life imprisonment.

In the appeal, the government has urged the apex court to uphold the verdict of the trial court that sentenced Oishee to death for killing her father Mahfuzur Rahman, a police officer, and mother Swapna Rahman in 2013.

Sufia Khatun, advocate-on-record at the office of the attorney general, told The Daily Star that the date for the appeal's hearing will be fixed by the apex court at a later date.

Oishee has already filed another appeal with the SC, seeking a verdict of acquittal for the conviction.

Advocate Sujit Chatterjee, one of Oishee's lawyers, told this correspondent that advocate Afzal H Khan has filed the appeal on Oishee's behalf. 

Oishee's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the HC on June 5 last year. On November 12, 2015, a trial court sentenced Oishee to death for the killings. She later challenged the verdict.

The bodies of Mahfuzur, an inspector of special branch of police, and his wife Swapna Rahman were recovered from their Chamelibagh house in the capital on August 16, 2013.