Dhaka, Feb. 8 -- A Dhaka court has postponed the verdict in the murder case of Afroza Begum and her domestic aide Diti, who were killed in a Dhanmondi home in 2019.

The verdict was set to be delivered on Sunday by the Seventh Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka.

However, as the judgment was not ready, Judge Tawheeda Akhter set Feb 17 as the new date, according to the plaintiff's lawyer Khalilur Rahman Asad.

The accused in the case are Afroza Begum's housekeeper Bachchu Mia and Suravi Akhter Nahid, who had joined the household shortly before the incident.

On the night of Nov 1, 2019, the bloodied bodies of Afroza, 65, and Diti, 18, were recovered from the fifth floor of a building known as "Lobelia House" on Road No...