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CHARGE SHEET-MURDER-PERVIN
Charge sheet accepted in former Eden College principal murder case
DHAKA, Aug 25, 2019 (BSS) – A court here today accepted charge sheet
filed by police in the case filed over murder of former principal of Eden
Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Pervin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiduzzaman Sharif accepted the charge
sheet, acquitting another initial accused Runa Akter from the charges.
Investigation officer (IO) and sub-inspector (SI) of New Market Police
Station Alamgir Hossain Mazumder filed the charge sheet against two accused
Ruma alias Reshma and Rikta Akter alias Swapna on July 21, saying the two
maids killed Pervin in a preplanned way to rob her Elephant Road flat.
The IO, in his charge sheet, said the two maids Ruma alias Reshma and
Rikta Akter alias Swapna killed Pervin by strangling her with a scarf. They
made sure Pervin’s death by pressing a pillow on her face. They looted 20
tolas of gold ornaments, one Samsung mobile phone and Taka 50 thousand in
cash from the house.
The investigation officer said he prepared the charge sheet based on the
statements given by the two accused under section 164, forensic reports and
evidences he seized on different occasions.
The police official said of the two, Swapna, 37, joined the work as maid
by giving false address, only to carry out her operation of robbing the flat
and Reshma too joined her in the crime.
The IO in his charge sheet pleaded to drop the name of another accused
Runa Akter alias Rakiber Maa, who brought the maids to this flat, from the
case as no specific charges were found against her.
Police on February 10, 2019, recovered the body of Pervin from her
Sukanya Tower flat at Elephant Road in the capital. Her husband Ismat Kader
Gama filed a murder case with New Market Police Station against three
including two housemaids Ruma alias Reshma and Rikta Akter alias Swapna.
Police later managed to arrest all the three accused, of which Reshma
and Swapna confessed killing Pervin.
BSS/CORR/JUB-MHR/FI/ 1548 hrs