The body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu has been exhumed for conducting a fresh autopsy, 10 days after she was found murdered inside Comilla cantonment area.
The body was exhumed from a graveyard at Mirzapur village around 11:30am Wednesday.
A team led by Comilla District Executive Magistrate Lutfur Nahar exhumed the body in the presence of Dhaka CID’s Special Police Super Dr Nazmul Karim and Comilla Police Super Md Shah Abidin Hossain.
Earlier, Comilla’s Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate ordered police to exhume Tonu’s body.
Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain said: “I just want justice for my daughter.”
Comilla Victoria Government College’s second-year history student and cultural activist Tonu was found murdered near her residence inside the Cantonment area on March 20.
Her father Yaar Hossain, an office assistant of the Cantonment Board, filed a case with Kotwali police the next day without naming anyone.
Investigators have so far failed to make any breakthrough. The case was initially handed over to DB on March 25.
The Criminal Investigation Department was put in charge of the case on Tuesday, its Special Superintendent of Organised Crime Mirza Abdullah Hel Baki confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune.
Source: Dhaka Tribune