Maid indicted in cop, wife murder case
A juvenile court in Dhaka indicted Khadiza Akter Sumi for assisting Oishee Rahman, who killed her parents -- Special Branch of Police inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Rahman.
However, the court granted bail to Sumi, 11, after her lawyer submitted a bail petition before it.
In her order, Judge Zakia Pervin said Sumi will be handed over to her parents at the court room on May 26. She has been in custody since August 18 last year.
Sumi pledged not guilty and demanded justice after the charges brought against her was read out.
The bodies of Mahfuzur and his wife Swapna were found at their Chamelibagh residence in the capital on August 16 last year.
Oishee, who had taken her O-level exams, surrendered to Paltan police the following day. She was indicted in the murder case later.
In a confessional statement before a magistrate on August 24 last year, she said she alone had killed her parents and Sumi helped her hide the bodies. Sumi also admitted to helping Oishee.
DB Inspector Abul Khair Matubbar, the investigation officer of the case, submitted two charge sheets -- one against Oishee, and her friends Asaduzzaman Johnny, 27, and Mizanur Rahman Roni, 25; and another against Sumi -- before the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in March this year.
A separate charge sheet was submitted against Sumi because she is under 18 and that her trial would be held in a juvenile court.
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