Woman confesses to torturing 12-year-old
Roksana Parvin, who was arrested on Thursday in a case over torturing a 12-year-old house help to death in Mohammadpur area, gave confessional statement before a magistrate yesterday.
“I tortured Jannati Akter as she failed to do household work properly on Wednesday, that led to her death,” Roksana said in her confessional statement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Yasmin Ara recorded the statement of Roksana, wife of an engineer of Water Development Board (WDB), under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) after Abdul Alim, inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station, produced her before the magistrate this afternoon.
“Roksana confessed that she beat up Jannati and confined her in a bathroom. She found Jannati dead when she opened the door of the bathroom early Wednesday,” court and police sources said.
During a primary interrogation yesterday, the arrestee also told police that she tortured Jannati before her death.
Police arrested Roksana from Mohammadpur area following a case filed by the victim’s father Janu Mollah with Mohammadpur Police Station on Thursday.
Police is now looking for Roksana’s husband Sayed Ahmed, who went into hiding after filing of the case.
On Wednesday around 12:30am, the employer took Jannati to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in an unconscious state where doctors declared her dead on arrival, and informed police, according to GG Biswas, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Prof Selim Reza, head of forensic department of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, who conducted the autopsy, told The Daily Star they suspected that Jannati might have died from internal bleeding.
Jannati had been working for Roksana for three years.
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