Prime Minister Tarique Rahman visited the family of slain child Ramisa Akter in the city’s Pallabi area on Thursday night following the Cabinet meeting.

The Prime Minister left the Secretariat around 9:20pm after the meeting and reached Ramisa’s residence around 9:50pm, according to the Prime Minister’s Press Wing.

During the visit, he talked to members of the grieving family of eight-year-old Ramisa who was killed after rape, and consoled them.

Earlier in the day, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said exemplary punishment will be ensured in the shortest possible time in the case.

Ramisa, a Class-II student, was raped and killed allegedly by a tenant living in a neighbouring flat in Pallabi on Tuesday last.

Police said the suspect, Sohel Rana, allegedly lured the child into his room after she left her flat in the morning. He then allegedly raped and killed her.

Ramisa’s decapitated body was later found under a bed, while her severed head was recovered from a bucket kept in the bathroom.

Locals detained the suspect’s wife, Swapna Akter, while Sohel Rana escaped by cutting through a window grille, police said.

He was later arrested in Fatullah of Narayanganj on Tuesday evening.

On Wednesday, the accused reportedly gave a confessional statement before a Dhaka court.