A court in Dhaka has acquitted the domestic help charged over the 2013 murders of police officer Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman in Dhaka.
Khadiza Akter Sumi was acquitted on Sunday as the prosecution failed to prove the charges leveled on her, said defence counsel Mizanur Rahman.
The couple’s only daughter Oishee Rahman is serving a life-term for the murders, which had made headlines.
She was sentenced to death by the trial court in November 2015.
The High Court later has commuted it considering her age. Oishee was 19 years old, when she murdered her parents.
House help Sumi was tried in a juvenile court being a minor.
Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Rahman were found murdered in their apartment in the capital’s Chamelibagh on Aug 16, 2013. The next day, Oishee turned herself in to the police and confessed to killing her parents.
Police pressed charges against Oishee, her two friends — Mizanur Rahman and Asaduzzaman Jony, and house help Khadija Akter Sumi in the case filed by the slain police officer’s brother Mashiur Rahman.
Rahman was sentenced to two years in prison for abetting in the killings, which was later upheld by the High Court while Jony was acquitted by the trial court.