bdnews24.com :
In a bid to assess the mental health of teenage death row convict Oishee Rahman, High Court judges have heard her statement in the chamber.
Found guilty of murdering her parents, Oishee was brought to the court on Monday by the prison authorities on a previous order by the bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice Md Jahangir Hossain.
At the beginning of the hearing, the court said that a report filed by doctors at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) says the teenage girl has been diagnosed with mental illness.
A petition over the matter has been filed and that’s why the court ordered to produce her, it said.
Oishee was then taken to the chamber, where judges heard her for 15 minutes in presence of counsels.
She was sent back to the prison after her statement and the court then proceeded with arguments by the State and the defence. On April 3, the High Court ordered the inspector general of prisons to produce the girl before it. Oishee’s counsel Sujit Chatterjee Bappy told bdnews24.com then, “Oishee was deranged at that time. No person will kill his or her parents in the right state of mind.”
Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua filed a petition in 2013, on which the High Court ordered the BSMMU to examine her mental health. On April 26, 2014, BSMMU submitted a report diagnosing Oishee with mental illness. The teenager is now lodged at the Kashimpur prison in Gazipur.
In November 2015, a Dhaka speedy trial tribunal awarded the death penalty to Oishee.
Her friend Mizanur Rahman was given a two-year jail term for aiding and abetting.
The third defendant Asaduzzaman Jony, another friend of Oishee, was acquitted of the charges of abetment.
On Aug 16, 2013, Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman were found murdered in their apartment in Dhaka in 2013.
The bloodstained bodies were found in a locked bathroom in their apartment.
Police said Oishee mixed sleeping pills in the coffee to render her parents unconscious.
Later, she stabbed her mother and then her father to death.
After the killings, the teenage girl left the apartment with her younger brother.
The slain police officer’s brother started a murder case the next day. Oishee surrendered to police the same day.
In March 2014, police pressed charges against Oishee, her two friends and the underage house help.
The house help is being tried at a juvenile court. In November 2015, the trial court’s order of Oishee’s death sentence was forwarded as the death reference to the High Court for it approval.
On Dec 6 the same year, Oishee filed a petition challenging the trial court’s verdict. The court started hearing the matters on Mar 12 this year.
In a bid to assess the mental health of teenage death row convict Oishee Rahman, High Court judges have heard her statement in the chamber.
Found guilty of murdering her parents, Oishee was brought to the court on Monday by the prison authorities on a previous order by the bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice Md Jahangir Hossain.
At the beginning of the hearing, the court said that a report filed by doctors at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) says the teenage girl has been diagnosed with mental illness.
A petition over the matter has been filed and that’s why the court ordered to produce her, it said.
Oishee was then taken to the chamber, where judges heard her for 15 minutes in presence of counsels.
She was sent back to the prison after her statement and the court then proceeded with arguments by the State and the defence. On April 3, the High Court ordered the inspector general of prisons to produce the girl before it. Oishee’s counsel Sujit Chatterjee Bappy told bdnews24.com then, “Oishee was deranged at that time. No person will kill his or her parents in the right state of mind.”
Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua filed a petition in 2013, on which the High Court ordered the BSMMU to examine her mental health. On April 26, 2014, BSMMU submitted a report diagnosing Oishee with mental illness. The teenager is now lodged at the Kashimpur prison in Gazipur.
In November 2015, a Dhaka speedy trial tribunal awarded the death penalty to Oishee.
Her friend Mizanur Rahman was given a two-year jail term for aiding and abetting.
The third defendant Asaduzzaman Jony, another friend of Oishee, was acquitted of the charges of abetment.
On Aug 16, 2013, Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman were found murdered in their apartment in Dhaka in 2013.
The bloodstained bodies were found in a locked bathroom in their apartment.
Police said Oishee mixed sleeping pills in the coffee to render her parents unconscious.
Later, she stabbed her mother and then her father to death.
After the killings, the teenage girl left the apartment with her younger brother.
The slain police officer’s brother started a murder case the next day. Oishee surrendered to police the same day.
In March 2014, police pressed charges against Oishee, her two friends and the underage house help.
The house help is being tried at a juvenile court. In November 2015, the trial court’s order of Oishee’s death sentence was forwarded as the death reference to the High Court for it approval.
On Dec 6 the same year, Oishee filed a petition challenging the trial court’s verdict. The court started hearing the matters on Mar 12 this year.
