Dhaka: Police arrested domestic help Ayesha, the prime suspect of the double murder in the city’s Mohammadpur area, from Jhalokathi. Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Media and Public Relations Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Talebur Rahman confirmed the arrest in a media briefing this afternoon.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the DC stated that Mohammadpur Police apprehended Ayesha from Jhalokathi in the early hours of today. The case involves the deaths of Laila Afroze, aged 48, and her daughter Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziza, a 15-year-old class nine student of Mohammadpur Preparatory School and College. They were both stabbed to death on the seventh floor of a 14-storey residential building on Shahjahan Road on Monday morning.
Laila Afroze’s husband, school teacher A J M Azizul Islam, filed a murder case with Mohammadpur Police Station, naming domestic worker Ayesha as the sole accused in the double murder on that night, police said.