Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted police permission to interrogate, Mahfuza Malek for five days in a case filed over deaths of her two kids, who were found dead at their Banasree residence in the city on February 29.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir passed the order when DB inspector Lokman Hekim produced her before the court seeking to quiz her for 10 more days after the first 5-day interrogation session ended.

The court also rejected the bail petition of Mahfuza when her counsel Safayet Ali filed a petition in this regard, reported UNB.

Earlier, Mahfuza Malek was taken on a five-day remand in connection with the murder of the kids on March 4.

Nusrat Jahan Urmi, 14, a seventh grader at Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student at Holy Crescent School in Banasree area, were found dead at their apartment on February 29.

Amanullah, father of the two children, filed a case against their mother Mahfuza with Rampura Police Station on March 3.

On March 2, Rab detained Amanullah, Mahfuza and Afroza Malek, the father and mother, and maternal aunt of the two siblings, from Jamalpur district for quizzing them over the mysterious death of the two children.

After primary interrogation, Mahfuza confessed that she herself killed the two children.