Cops probing if mother's statement true

Police have been investigating the statement of Mahfuza Malek Jasmine, mother of the two siblings who were murdered in the capital's Banasree, whether it was true or something else was behind.

Mahfuza is now under five days' remand.

Officer-in-Charge Rafiqul Islam of Rampura Police Station told The Daily Star that they would also interrogate the siblings' father Amanullah Aman and, if necessary, other relatives.

Police is investigating whether some other person besides Jasmine was involved in the crime.

Rampura police have been probing into incoherent behaviour of the siblings' father following his children's death.

Different quarters have been raising questions as to why the parents went to their Jamalpur village home instead of going to the Dhaka Medical College morgue.

Police said Mahfuza, in primary interrogation, admitted that she killed the kids being worried about their study. She, however, kept mum when she was asked how did she actually strangle them and why.

The primary confession is not enough to know who the beneficiaries of the murders are, they said.

Nusrat Aman Aroni, 14, and her brother Alvi Aman, 6, were found unconscious at their apartment and declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday.

Three days later, Rapid Action Battalion told the press that they were killed by their mother out of her "concerns about their future." And Mahfuza made up a food-poisoning story to cover it up.