Staff Reporter :
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police are optimistic of unearthing the clue and motive of Tonu murder. The CID officials questioned as many as 56 people, including Tonu’s family members, in 23 days and gathered sufficient information’.
CID Special Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahhar Akanda told the reporters, they are still verifying the pieces of information.” We hope to reach a conclusion very soon,” he said. SSP Kahhar Akanda was the investigation officer in many sensational cases including the Bangabandhu Murder, the August 21 grenade attack and the BDR mutiny. Now he is heading the team of investigators, who are assisting the main panel probing the murder case, which was handed over to CID on March 29. Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a second year history student of Comilla Victoria College and a cultural activist, was murdered near the Comilla Cantonment area on the night of March 20.
Kahhar Akanda and his team from Dhaka went to Comilla and questioned four persons, including Tonu’s relatives on Wednesday. Before returning to the capital in the afternoon, he said, “We collected a lot of information during the question hour.” So far 56 people of the area including Tonu’s family members were interrogated. Regarding quizzing her family over and over, Akanda said, “We have lots to learn from them, as they are the victims here. We are still trying to gather more information from them.” The CID team on Tuesday again questioned the doctor, who conducted the first post-mortem on Tonu’s body. Victoria Government College student Tonu’s dead body was found several hundred yards from her home near the Comilla Cantonment area on the night of Mar 20. On seeing her corpse, police suspected that she was raped before the murder.
Amidst raging protests throughout Bangladesh, forensic experts said they did not find any evidence of rape on her remains during examinations.
A second post-mortem was conducted upon a court order 18 days ago, but these findings also have not been made public.
After the murder last month, Kotwali police started the investigation. But soon the case was transferred to the Detective Branch before the CID was entrusted with the responsibility of unveiling the clue and motive of murder.
