Probe report in Wari child murder case Oct 7

A Dhaka court today set October 7 to submit probe report in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in capital's Wari area on July 5.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mainul Islam passed the order as investigation officer of the case detective branch of police inspector Arjun failed to submit the report today.

Saima's father Abdus Salam filed the case under 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 8pm, 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.