Tonu rape, murder: 2nd autopsy not sure about rape

The second autopsy of murdered Comilla Victoria College girl Sohagi Jahan Tonu neither determined the cause of her death nor confirmed whether she was raped but found evidence of ‘intercourse’ before the death.
In the autopsy report, Comilla Medical College forensic medicine department advised police investigators to carry out further investigation to determine the cause of the death of Tonu, also a theatre activist.
‘The second autopsy report for Tonu finds evidence of “sexual intercourse” before her death,’ said Comilla Medical College forensic department head Kamda Prasad Shaha, who headed the team that conducted the autopsy.
‘The cause of the death could not be determined since the second autopsy was conducted 10 days after the murder…No injury marks could be identified from the decomposed body,’ he told reporters at his office on Sunday.
Asked if the term ‘sexual intercourse’ was tantamount to rape, Kamada told New Age, ‘It is suspicious, but I’m not questioning Tonu’s character.’
The forensic team also handed over the autopsy report to the Criminal Investigation Department on Sunday.
CID special superintendent in Comilla Nazmul Karim Khan said, ‘CID’s DNA profiling report for Tonu confirmed that Tonu was raped and three male’s DNA profile was found in the report.’
‘We will collect fingerprints, blood, semen and other samples of the suspects to identify matching DNA of the suspects through DNA profiling,’ he told New Age.
Nazmul said that CID had already prepared a ‘list of suspects’, but wanted not take any ‘risk of arresting them now’.
CID on May 16 said that the DNA profiling of Tonu confirmed that she was raped before her death, contradicting the first post-mortem report that claimed there was no indication of rape of the 19-year-old girl murdered inside Moinamoti Cantonment in Comilla on March 20.
Her first post-mortem examination, performed at Comilla Medical College morgue and disclosed on April 4, had triggered countrywide protests and raised questions over the investigation, because of its controversial findings that did not ascertain the reason for the death or find any symptoms of rape.
Amid the protests, a second post-mortem examination was performed on Tonu’s exhumed body at the forensic department at Comilla Medical College, following a court order, on March 30.
Tonu, a second-year student of history department and a member of Comilla Victoria College Theatre, went missing on March 20 after she went out from her house at Alipur staff quarters inside the cantonment at about 4:00pm to give tuition at two houses in the staff quarters. Her father discovered her body in a bush near their house at about 11:30pm on March 20.
Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain filed a complaint with the Kotwali police station on March 31 against unidentified people alleging that Tonu was premeditatedly killed and the evidence of the offence had been made to ‘disappear.’
The investigators said that a small group of people might have killed Tonu and dumped the body in the bush near the boundary of the Comilla Cantonment between 10:10pm and 10:30pm on March 20 after she was raped in another place inside the cantonment anytime in the evening.
CID interrogated about 100 individuals including the victim’s family members, and their neighbours in the restricted area, doctors, military personnel and police in Comilla and alleged that many others were not willing to talk to the investigators to avoid ‘trouble.’

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