DEATH OF BANASREE SIBLINGS

Parents, aunt detained

Even after more than 48 hours, law enforcers are clueless about the suspected murder of two children at their residence at Banasree in the capital on Monday afternoon.
Although RAB has picked up seven persons, three of them yesterday, no one has been officially arrested.
Sources close to the victims' family claimed that it appears that family members are trying to "hide something", which could be a vital clue in the case.
Nusrat Jahan Urni, 14, a class VII student of the Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother, Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of the Holy Crescent School at Banasree, are suspected to have been murdered on Monday.
Talking to The Independent, Saiyma Hamja Mini, a ward councilor of Jamalpur Municipality, said: "I visited the family twice. First, after the couple arrived in the district down on Tuesday night. I revisited the home today      (Wednesday), mainly to condole the shocked family members."
To a question, Mini, quoting neighbours, said many people are suspecting that the parents are trying to hide something about the deaths. A source assigned to keep an eye on the father, said that after the burial of the two children, Amanullah was seen telling one of his relatives that he suspected his wife, Mahfuza Akter Jasmine. It is possible that the children were killed as they happened to see some “unpleasant” things of their mother, the source quoted Amanullah as having said.

But another source told this correspondent that the father of the children was involved in an extra-marital affair, which caused severe discord in the family. Jasmine was upset after she failed to refrain her husband from the extra-marital affair. This could have led her to take the extreme step, the family source claimed.
The Independent correspondent, however, could not verify this claim. A teacher of the Holy Crescent School said when Alvi Aman went to school on Sunday, he had injury marks which were covered with bandage.
Lt Col. Khandaker Golam Sarwar, RAB-3 Commanding Officer,  said: “We think Jasmine knows how the murders took place. We will interrogate Amanullah, Jasmine and the two children’s maternal aunt, Afroza Malek Mila, along with the five picked up on Tuesday. We have interrogated several people who are in our custody. They are the house tutor, Sheuli Akter, 28, security guard Pintu Mondol, 32, caretaker Ferdous Howleder, 30, Obaidul Islam, a cousin of the children’s mother, and Shahin, 22, a cousin of the children. We are trying to trace another house tutor who was assigned to teach English to Urni.”
Our Jamalpur Correspondent Md Mukhlesur Rahman adds: A team of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) took the parents and aunt of the slain siblings into custody for interrogation yesterday.
A team of the elite force, led by Mostak Ahmed, Company Commander of RAB-3, reached Jamalpur town at 5.00am, entered the house at 7.45am and stayed there for several hours. The team took into custody Amanullah, Jasmine and Mila at 11am and left the house for the capital at 11.10am, said Solaiman, paternal uncle of the children.
The bodies of the two siblings reached Jamalpur at around 8.30pm on Tuesday. They were buried at the Jamalpur municipal graveyard after janaza prayers at 9.00pm, said family sources.
Being asked by Dhaka RAB-3, members of the Jamalpur RAB stayed at the house on Tuesday night from 8.00pm to 11.00pm and continued interrogating Amanullah, Jasmine and Mila, said the Jamalpur Rab Commander. “But they were too distressed to speak. Nevertheless, we managed to get some clues from them, but cannot disclose them as the investigation is on”, he said.
Asked about the Rab-3 team, which has taken the three people into its custody, he said the team is working as “shadow investigators”. So, they have taken them to their office in the capital
In another development, a Dhaka court permitted the police to conduct DNA profiling and chemical examination of the evidence collected at the double murder site. Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Kamrul Islam issued the order on a petition by the investigation officer in the case, Rampura police station SI, Somen Kumar Barua.

DEATH OF BANASREE SIBLINGS

Parents, aunt detained

Even after more than 48 hours, law enforcers are clueless about the suspected murder of two children at their residence at Banasree in the capital on Monday afternoon. Although RAB has picked up seven persons, three of them yesterday, no one has been officially arrested. Sources close to the victims family claimed that it appears that family members are trying to hide something, which could be a vital clue in the case. Nusrat Jahan Urni, 14, a class VII student of the Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother, Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of the Holy Crescent School at Banasree, are suspected to have been murdered on Monday. Talking to The Independent, Saiyma Hamja Mini, a ward councilor of Jamalpur Municipality, said: I visited the family twice. First, after the couple arrived in the district down on Tuesday night. I revisited the home today (Wednesday), mainly to condole the shocked family members. To a question, Mini, quoting neighbours, said many people are suspecting that the parents are trying to hide something about the deaths. A source assigned to keep an eye on the father, said that after the burial of the two children, Amanullah was seen telling one of his relatives that he suspected his wife, Mahfuza Akter Jasmine. It is possible that the children were killed as they happened to see some unpleasant things of their mother, the source quoted Amanullah as having said. But another source told this correspondent that the father of the children was involved in an extra-marital affair, which caused severe discord in the family. Jasmine was upset after she failed to refrain her husband from the extra-marital affair. This could have led her to take the extreme step, the family source claimed. The Independent correspondent, however, could not verify this claim. A teacher of the Holy Crescent School said when Alvi Aman went to school on Sunday, he had injury marks which were covered with bandage. Lt Col. Khandaker Golam Sarwar, RAB-3 Commanding Officer, said: We think Jasmine knows how the murders took place. We will interrogate Amanullah, Jasmine and the two childrens maternal aunt, Afroza Malek Mila, along with the five picked up on Tuesday. We have interrogated several people who are in our custody. They are the house tutor, Sheuli Akter, 28, security guard Pintu Mondol, 32, caretaker Ferdous Howleder, 30, Obaidul Islam, a cousin of the childrens mother, and Shahin, 22, a cousin of the children. We are trying to trace another house tutor who was assigned to teach English to Urni. Our Jamalpur Correspondent Md Mukhlesur Rahman adds: A team of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) took the parents and aunt of the slain siblings into custody for interrogation yesterday. A team of the elite force, led by Mostak Ahmed, Company Commander of RAB-3, reached Jamalpur town at 5.00am, entered the house at 7.45am and stayed there for several hours. The team took into custody Amanullah, Jasmine and Mila at 11am and left the house for the capital at 11.10am, said Solaiman, paternal uncle of the children. The bodies of the two siblings reached Jamalpur at around 8.30pm on Tuesday. They were buried at the Jamalpur municipal graveyard after janaza prayers at 9.00pm, said family sources. Being asked by Dhaka RAB-3, members of the Jamalpur RAB stayed at the house on Tuesday night from 8.00pm to 11.00pm and continued interrogating Amanullah, Jasmine and Mila, said the Jamalpur Rab Commander. But they were too distressed to speak. Nevertheless, we managed to get some clues from them, but cannot disclose them as the investigation is on, he said. Asked about the Rab-3 team, which has taken the three people into its custody, he said the team is working as shadow investigators. So, they have taken them to their office in the capital In another development, a Dhaka court permitted the police to conduct DNA profiling and chemical examination of the evidence collected at the double murder site. Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Kamrul Islam issued the order on a petition by the investigation officer in the case, Rampura police station SI, Somen Kumar Barua.