BartaBangla Desk :: Oiyeshee Rahman, missing daughter of the murdered SB Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman, surrendered to Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Saturday afternoon.
Police recovered the bodies of the Special Branch (SB) Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman, 50, and his wife Swapna Rahman, 40, from their residence at Chamelibagh in the capital’s Malibagh Friday night.
The bloodstained decomposed bodies were found lying on a bathroom floor attached to their daughter’s room, wrapped in a bed sheet. The bodies were kept on upon another.
Officer-in-Charge Golam Sarwar of Paltan Police Station told The Independent that they were suspecting the couple was hacked to death anytime between Early Thursday and Friday afternoon. They have two children—one girl and a boy.
The 17-year-old daughter named Oiyeshee Rahman, who have completed her O’level from Oxford International School at Dhanmondi and a 10-year-old househelp named Sumi were found missing following the incident. Their son Ohi Rahman, 7, a class II student of Police Lines School was under police custody.
Teams of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), and Detective Branch of Police (DB) and SB thronged there hearing the incident. CID was collecting evidence from the spot.
SB officials presented there said, Mahfuz last went to the office on Wednesday. He went back home around 11:00pm and since then stopped contacting with his office.
An uncle of the children Iftekharul Alam told reporters that Oiyeshee called him over phone around 2:00am on Friday saying that her parents have gone to Rajshahi and have told them to go to his residence for staying there for two or three days. They were staying at one of her friend Trisha’s residence at VIP Road house number-4.
She asked for her uncle’s residence address as she had never been there. But Iftekhar told her that he was his village home to celebrate Eid. He advised them to stay where they were.
Iftekhar on Friday morning phoned Oiyeshee’s maternal Uncle Rabiul Alam to take the children to his [Rabiul] residence.
Rabiul said, he attended his office at the first half of the day and then with his brother Raihan Alam went to their brother-in-law’s residence around 2:00pm on Friday. But he found the main door locked from outside. Within an hour he found that his nephew Ohi from somewhere came in front of the house by a CNG-run Auto rickshaw.
Meanwhile, a team from SB also appeared there. SB men said, they have come to know why their colleague was absent from office. Later they called police and with help of SB personnel the main door’s lock was broken.
Meanwhile, manager of the apartment Jahangir Alam told reporters that he saw Oiyeshee, her little brother and the househelp going out around 8:00am Thursday. He gave phoned their mother a cell over her cell phone for permission to let them go outside without any guardian.
“Someone picked up the phone and said they were at Rajshahi. The voice told me to let them go,” he said. He also claimed that he phoned Oiyshee’s mother again Friday afternoon after the children’s uncles came to see them. But Oiyshee herself then picked up the phone.
A neighbour of the family seeking anonymity said, they heard unusual sound from the flat early Thursday.
Jahangir said, no one came to visit them during the last seven days except one Bilkis who said she had come from the airport on August 8.
SB took Ohi into their custody and did not allow the journalists to talk with him.
A DIG of SB Mosarraf Hossain Bhuiya who came there hearing news of the incident, told reporters that Ohi told he and Oiyeshee had stayed at a house Thursday night. But he could not give the address.
“Ohi said his sister hired a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from Kakrail Friday morning and wrote their residence address on a piece of paper. She gave it to the driver and asked him to take Ohi home,” Mosharraf said.
He suspected that professional killers were involved in the murder.
However, a police official seeking anonymity said that the murder took place when Oiyeshee and Ohi were present in the house. The police high ranking official also said that Oiyeshee could be involved in the murder, but she was not alone.
He said, they found every room of the flat okay. There were some blood-spots in front of the bathroom.
“But I think such murder cannot be committed without hassle or blood,” he said.
Police have sent the body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy. Morgue sources said, the bodies had a good number of lethal weapon’s marks.