TONU RAPE, MURDER : Body undergoes fresh autopsy [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

TONU RAPE, MURDER : Body undergoes fresh autopsy

Local March 31, 2016

The body of murdered Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu underwent fresh postmortem on Wednesday following a court order in this regard.
Meanwhile, protests demanding justice for Tonu continued in Dhaka, Comilla and the rest of the country.
On Tuesday night, the Inter Services Public Relations of the Armed Forces issued a second statement reiterating the army’s commitment to fair investigation into the rape and murder of the 19-year-old daughter of a civilian security guard of the Comilla cantonment.
United News of Bangladesh reported Dr Kamoda Prosad Saha, with Dr Omar Faruk and Sharmin Sultana, of the forensic department of Comilla Medical College Hospital conducted the autopsy on Tonu’s body before handing it over to her family around 6pm on the same day.
Tonu was reburied at around 8:15pm Wednesday.
Tonu’s body was earlier exhumed in the presence of Comilla’s executive magistrate Lutfun Nahar in Mirzapur in Muradnagar upazila at about 10:30am in order to collect DNA samples.
The ISPR statement Tuesday night said police investigators have started work ‘in accordance to the country’s existing laws.’
It said the ‘army is part of the public and respectful of the country’s existing laws.’
The ISPR further stated that elected representatives, administration, Ain O Salish Kendra, and other law enforcing agencies visited the spot and met Tonu’s family.
The 19-year-old Tonu, a second-year student of Comilla Government Victoria College and activist of the college theatre, was found brutally murdered near Kala Tanki culvert in Comilla cantonment on March 20 at night.
On March 21, Yar Hossain, the victim’s father, filed a murder case with Kotwali police station against unnamed killers.
The Kotwali police started investigation initially before the case was transferred to district detective branch on March 25, and finally shifted to Criminal Investigation Department on March 29.
Nearly two days after, the CID’s special superintendent (Comilla and Noakhali) Nazmul Karim Khan said they were yet to receive the case documents.
Nazmul, along with Comilla’s police superintendent Mohammad Shah Abid Hossain and Tonu’s father, was present during the exhumation of Tonu’s body ordered on Monday by a district judicial magistrate court in Comilla.
Tonu’s father said no one had informed him as yet about the findings of the first postmortem report, reported our Comilla correspondent.
Talking to the reporters Yar asked, ‘was the previous autopsy report wrong?’
Ain O Salish Kendra in a press statement expressed concern that the government was repeatedly changing the investigating officer and at the slow progress in investigation.
Meanwhile, countrywide protests continued as the Ganajagaran Mancha held a protest rally at the capital’s Shahbag intersection demanding quick investigation and the arrest of perpetrators. They also declared a countrywide demonstration on April 1.
The students of Dhaka University and Eden Mohila College also held protest rallies and human chain separately on the campus on Wednesday.
Protests continued in Comilla and many other districts, while the women cell of the Communist Party of Bangladesh held a two-hour token hunger strike in front of the National Press Club.