Looting of Gold Jewellery
Court sends three minors to juvenile dev centre
Three children landed in National Juvenile Development Centre in Gazipur yesterday after police produced them before a Juvenile Court in connection with looting 80 tola gold jewellery from a house in the city's Lalbagh area.
They are Pakhi, 10, her brother Barek, 11, and cousin Mirajul, 10.
Pakhi has been a domestic help at the house of garments businessman Mahbubur Rahman at Nawabganj in Lalbagh.
On September 3, unidentified persons made Mahbub's daughter Nitu, 22, unconscious and looted the jewellery, officer-in-charge of Lalbagh Police Station said.
The kids admitted that Mirajul gave some powder-like substance to Pakhi and told her to mix it with juice prepared for Nitu, claimed law enforcers.
Nitu received treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, sources at the hospital noted.
Police on the following day picked up the minors, Pakhi's uncle Moksed and his wife Sajeda for interrogation.
Pakhi was detained from her master's house at Nawabganj and the rest four were picked up from their house at Kamrangirchar just outside the capital, Pakhi's another uncle Mofazzal Gharami told The Daily Star.
He alleged police detained the minors at the police station since September 4.
Defence lawyer Lokman Hossain said he noticed torture marks in different parts of the kids' bodies.
Police produced Moksed and Sajeda before a Dhaka court on September 4 and prayed for taking them on a seven-day remand. But the court placed them on a day's remand, he added.
The court granted bail to Sajeda and sent Moksed to jail on Wednesday, mentioned the lawyer.
The two did not confess to the crime but police suspected them to be involved in the offence.
Another domestic help Samiran has been absconding from the house since the looting incident, noted the lawyer quoting the children.
A case was filed with Lalbagh Police Station in this regard on September 3, but the law enforcers are yet to recover the loot.
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