Dhaka, Jan 24 (UNB) - Police has pressed charges against two youths arrested over the killing of Nursat Jahan and Dola Akther in the city’s Demra area after failed rape attempt.
Investigation officer of the case Mohammad Shah Alam of Demra Police Station submitted the chargesheet against Golam Mostafa and Azizul Bawani to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court within 16 days of the incident, on Wednesday.
A day after the incident police arrested the two youths on January 8. Later, they confessed before a court that they strangled the two girls following their failed rape attempt.
In their statements, the youths told the court that they lured the two girls, both aged 4, into going to a nearby flat with lipsticks.
On January 7, police recovered the bodies of Nursat, daughter of Palash, and Dola, daughter of Faridul -- from the ground floor of a seven-storey building on Shahjalal Road in Demra.