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A court here on Wednesday asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conduct chemical test of food and water taken by the two siblings in the city’s Banasree area before their death.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Quamrul Islam passed the order.
The court also permitted the police to conduct DNA test of evidence, including pillow-cover, bed-sheet, tissue paper and blanket, collected from the room of the two children when Soumen Kumar Barua, sub-inspector of Rampura Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, filed a petition seeking permission from the court to conduct the test.
The two siblings — Nusrat Jahan Urmi, 14, a Class-VII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of Holy Crescent School Banasree area, were found dead at their home in the area Banasree on Monday night.
Family sources claimed that they died after having food taken from a Chinese restaurant.
However, the autopsies, conducted by the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, found injury marks on the throat of Urmi and on that of Alvi and his one leg.
Meanwhile, police detained four people — Pintu Das and Shaheen, caretakers of the house, victims’ relative Ferdous and house tutor Sheuli Akter — for interrogation over the death the following day.
Besides, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Wednesday detained Amanullah, Mahfuza and Afroza Malek, father, mother and maternal aunt of the two siblings from Jamalpur district for quizzing over the mysterious death.