Detective Branch (DB) of police has filed charge sheet against sole accused Harun-ur Rashid in Wari’s Samia Afrin Saima murder case.

Investigation officer and DB inspector Md Arjun filed the charge sheet on Wednesday (Nov 5) at Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court, reports BSS.

Earlier on Oct 29, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mainul Islam set Nov 20 to submit probe report in the case filed over rape and subsequent murder of seven-year-old Saima in capital’s Wari area on Jul 5.

Saima’s father Abdus Salam filed the case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Wari Police Station on July 6 and police on July 7 managed to arrest killer Harun-ur Rashid from Cumilla.

Saima, nursery-grade student of Silverdale School went missing after going out to play on the afternoon of July 5. Her body was found on the 8th floor of their under-construction building at 8 pm, with a rope still wrapped around her neck.

It was found later the little girl was brutally raped by Harun and the killer dragged her lifeless body by tying a rope around her neck and took it to the kitchen of that vacant flat and fled the scene.