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Accused Sohel confesses to Ramisa rape and murder
Daily Sun Report, Dhaka
Published: 20 May 2026, 06:05 PM
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A Dhaka court on Wednesday recorded the confessional statement of accused Sohel Rana in the case of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in the capital’s Pallabi area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Islam Junayed recorded the statement and ordered him to be sent to jail following a petition filed by Pallabi Police Station Sub-Inspector Ohiduzzaman, also the investigating officer of the case.
In the same case, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ashraful Haque sent Sohel’s wife, Swapna Akhter, to jail following another petition filed by the IO.
The victim, Ramisa Akter, was a second-grade student at Popular Model High School.
Families of both the victim and the accused lived on the second floor of a five-storey building located in Block-B of Pallabi Section-11.
On 19 May around 9:30am, Sohel allegedly forced the child into their flat.
Around 10:30am, Ramisa's family began searching for her and found her shoes outside the flat of the accused.
Ramisa’s parents and other residents of the building broke open the door after receiving no response from inside.
They found Ramisa’s decapitated body on the bedroom floor and her severed head inside a large bucket in the washroom.
When questioned, Swapna Akter claimed that her husband locked Ramisa inside the bathroom, raped her, and then slit her throat.
According to the police petition, the accused allegedly severed the child’s head from her body with a sharp knife to conceal the corpse. Her private parts were also mutilated, and both arms were partially detached from the shoulders.
The body was later moved from the bathroom to the bedroom and hidden under the bed, while the head was placed in a bucket.
After the incident, Sohel escaped by cutting through the window grille of the room. He was later arrested in front of Fatullah Police Station in Narayanganj.
Sohel admitted his guilt regarding the rape and murder of the child, while his wife's active involvement in the incident is still being investigated, police said.