Staff Reporter :
The body of Dr Shamarukh Mahjabin, who was found hanging at her father-in-law and former Awami League MP Khan Tipu Sultan’s Dhaka city residence, and the body of Nayar Rahman Lopa, who played Tuni’s character in Humayun Ahmed’s television serial ‘Eei Shob Dinratri’, were exhumed from Jessore and the capital respectively on Thursday to conduct autopsy again, police said.
The body of Mahjabin was exhumed from Karbala Graveyard in Jessore town at 11.15am in the presence of Additional District Magistrate Sohel Hasan, Executive Magistrate Abdus Salam, Investigation Officer (IO) Munshi Ruhul Quddus, Dr. Hossain Safaet of Jessore Medical College, Ruhul Kuddus, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Criminal Investigation Department, Dhaka Range) and other officials. Shamarukh’s father West Zone Power Distribution Company’s Engineer Nurul Islam identified the body.
Quoting the doctors, Jessore Kotwali Police Station’s Officer-in Charge (OC) Inamul Haque confirmed the matter.
Mahjabin, 26, wife of Humayun Sultan, was found dead at her in-law’s Dhanmondi residence in the capital on November 13.
Mahjabin and Humayun had got married in April last year.
Her father Nurul Islam filed a case accusing her husband Humayun Sultan Shadab, father-in-law Advocate Tipu Sultan and mother-in-law Dr Jasmine Ara Begum on charge of murdering his daughter.
The first autopsy report made available on Nov 23 stated that it was a case of suicide. Nurul Islam moved a petition in the court and Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Dhaka ordered re-exhumation and re-autopsy of the body on Nov 25.
Meanwhile, the body of Lopa, was exhumed from the city’s Banani Graveyard at about 12:30pm and was sent to the Mitford Hospital morgue for fresh autopsy following a court order. At that time, Dhaka’s Executive Magistrate Shamim Banu was present. Gulshan Police Station’s Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Billal Hossain confirmed the matter.
Earlier on November 16, Lopa’s family rejected the autopsy report, which claimed that she had ‘committed suicide’. Lopa’s body was recovered from her city’s Gulshan residence on October 1.
