The real identity of Oishee Rahman’s house maid Khadiza Khatun Sumi is yet to be established.
Published : 28 Aug 2013, 12:48 PM
She is under arrest with Oishee, facing charges of murdering her father, Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Begum.
But though ten days have passed since she was lodged in jail, no one has so far come forward to claim Sumi as a daughter or a relative.
The 14-year old housemaid and Oishee have been kept at the Gazipur Kishori Unnayan Kendra, a juvenile correction home.
Police recovered the bodies of Inspector Mahfuzur and his wife from their Chamelibagh residence on Aug 16.
Their bodies bore multiple stab wounds, which forensic experts believed, were inflicted by amateurs.
Oishee is an Oxford International School student and police claimed she alone killed her parents out of hatred.
But Sumi has been booked because she apparently helped Oishee, according to confessions made to the Metropolitan Magistrate.
Police allege Sumi assisted Oishee hide the bodies after being forced.
Oishee had reportedly put her parents on sedatives on Aug 14 night and stabbed them to death.
But police faces much criticism for taking Sumi into custody as she is a minor.
Questions have also been raised about why the minor is denied legal assistance.
Neither police nor any relative of the slain couple could say where Sumi hails from or how she started to work in the SB inspector's house.
Mahfuz's brother in law Abdur Razzaq told bdnews24.com that only the inspector and his wife knew all about Sumi.
Apparently, Sumi has not revealed much about herself or her family, choosing to remain a child of darkness from the nation's huge under-belly of poor and floating.
Razzaq said Sumi was brought to Inspector Mahfuz's house by a ‘broker’ after the previous maid went home during last Ramadhan and never returned.
He said she might belong to Rangamati but was not totally sure about that. “None came to visit her in the last one year.”
Rangamati Police superintendent Amena Begum said, “Dhaka did not inform them anything about Sumi being from Rangamati.”
bdnews24.com Rangamati Correspondent tried hard to trace down her family there but failed.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman, however, said she is from that district. “But none of her relatives contacted us after the incident.”
Shankar Saran Saha, Super of the Gazipur’s correction center, was not ready to disclose any information about her. He just said that none have come to look for Sumi.
Detectives have repeatedly claimed Oishee was alone responsible for the gruesome murders, after which she gave herself up to the police a day later.
Mahfuz's brother Moshiur Rahman Rubel, however, had contested police’s claim.
Rubel, also plaintiff of the murder case, suspects ‘other mystery’ behind the killing of his brother and sister-in-law.
Oishee Rahman, he said, was sent to their neighbour’s house the next day but she surrendered before Paltan Police Station on Aug 17.
Sumi and one of her friends were arrested later.
Islam had earlier mentioned about recovering some of the ornaments from Oishee which went missing after the murders.
Police claim Oishee was “nurturing hatred” for her parents as they tried to discipline her .
On Aug 24, Oishee had given the confessional statement before a Dhaka court at the end of her five-day remand. The court sent her and Sumi to the correction center on that night.
Meanwhile, rights bodies had flayed the detention and remanding of Oishee and Sumi saying it violated the Children Act.
Police have already conducted a medical test to confirm her age following a court order. But the reports are yet to come.
Oishee’s school records show she is a minor. National Human Rights Commission Chairman Mizanur Rahman has said her arrest and remand are a complete violation of the Children Act.
Sumi is shown as a 14-year-old in the case.