A Supreme Court lawyer has issued a legal notice asking teenager Oishee Rahman, accused for murdering her parents, to be transferred to prison from a correctional home where she is now being held.
Published : 27 Aug 2013, 04:37 PM
The plaintiff Yunus Ali Akhand claims that Oishee is 19 years old and has her birth certificate to prove it.
She will not receive the exemptions under the newly amended Children Act because it was implemented after the case was filed against her, Akhand argues.
The notice which stated that Oishee must be sent to prison within 24 hours was couriered to the offices of the Secretary for Home, Inspector General of Police, Deputy Commissioner for Detective Branch, Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Paltan Police Officer-in-Charge, the case’s Investigation Officer and National Juvenile Development Centre in Tongi.
The notice said the order to send Oishee to a juvenile correctional home must be withdrawn and the accused be sent to prison within 24 hours.
Or else Akhand says he will be compelled file a writ petition in High Court.
The blood stained bodies of Oishee Rahman’s parents SB Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Begum were found in a locked bathroom in their Chamelibagh residence on Friday.
The post-mortem report stated that they died of the stab wounds inflicted by multiple killers, who appeared to be amateurs.
Oishee, an O-level student from Oxford International School, was seen leaving the house a day before the bodies of her parents were found. She turned herself in at the Paltan Police Station the next day.
Police claims Oishee is a ‘drug addict’ who held a lot of anger against her parents for their efforts to discipline her.
The court ordered a medical investigation to decide her age after questions were raised against the move to send her into remand in police custody.
The report is yet to arrive.
According to her school record the accused is less than 18 years old.
Human Rights Commission chairman Mizanur Rahman believed that her arrest and remand are violations of the Children Act.
He believes her trial should be conducted under the new act.
There are debates about sending their housemaid Shumi, also a minor, to police remand.
The court after the five-day remand and a ‘confessional testimony’ from Oishee sent her to prison.
Shumi and Oishee were sent to the correctional home in Gazipur that very night.