A Dhaka court today placed house help Rekha Akter and her husband Farhad Ershad, each on eight-day remand in a case lodged for brutally torturing an elderly woman at her house.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masudur Rahman passed the order after police produced the duo in court and pleaded for a 10-day remand for each of them.

Rekha on January 18, was seen viciously assaulting the woman in a CCTV footage which went viral on social media.

Police managed to arrest Rekha from Thakurgaon on January 20.