A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned till May 16 the hearing of a case lodged over sensational murder of a mother and her son in capital’s Kakrail area in 2017. Dhaka 3rd additional metropolitan session judge Robiul Islam passed the order as a new witness testified in the case and was cross-examined hereafter. Rasheda Begum, who used to work as a housemaid at the Kakrail flat testified yesterday.

Shamsunnahar, 45, and her son Shaon were slaughtered in their 79/A Anjuman Mofidul Islam Road house in Kakrail on November 1, 2017. Shamsunnahar’s brother Ashraf Ali filed the case on November 2 against her husband Abdul Karim, his second wife Sharmin Mukta, Mukta’s brother Jonny and others.