Court remands house help, her husband over torture of elderly woman in Malibagh BSS, Dhaka BSS, Dhaka
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.
Housemaid, husband remanded over torture of elderly woman in Malibagh
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DHAKA, Jan 22, 2021 (BSS) – A court here today placed housemaid Rekha Akter and her husband Farhad Ershad on eight-day remand each in a case lodged for brutally torturing an elderly woman in the house, where Rekha used to work.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mas Udur Rahman passed the order as police produced the duo before the court and pleaded to place them on a 10-day remand.
Rekha was seen viciously assaulting the septuagenarian woman in CCTV footage on January 18 and the video clippings created ruckus for its sheer brutality.
Police managed to arrest Rekha from Thakurgaon on January 20.
House help who tortured elderly woman, looted valuables in Dhaka s Malibagh area arrested Star Online Report Star Online Report
The domestic help who brutally tortured an elderly woman and fled with cash and valuables on Monday from her employer s Malibagh house was arrested early today.
A team from DMP s Shahjahanpur Police Station along with local police arrested Rekha Akter from Ranisankail upazila in Thakurgaon district around 3:00am, Sub-inspector Rezaul Karim of Shahjahanpur Police Station, who led the drive, told The Daily Star.
Rekha has already spent some money she looted from the house. She was being brought to Dhaka, Rezaul, who is investigating the case, said.
No one held, a month after the murder of a disabled man Our Correspondent, Mymensingh Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
Family members of a man who was killed over land dispute in Mymensingh on December 25 alleged that they were being threatened by the accused.
The victim, Mozammel Hossain Babul, 50, had been running a small grocery shop at his home in Kalyanpur village of Mymensingh Sadar since 2007.
No accused has been arrested yet in this connection.
Talking to this correspondent, Babul s wife Sheuly Akter, 45, who works as a domestic help in the capital, said her husband used to pull rickshaw in Dhaka. In 1995, he had an accident and was admitted to the Pangu Hospital, where his right leg had to be amputated.