Staff Reporter :
National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman has said that delay of the investigation into Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case has raised doubt among the people about nabbing the real culprits.
People have expressed doubt that the murder case would be diverted, the NHRC said on Sunday while addressing an international conference on Human Rights and Criminal Justice Delivery System in Bangladesh at Le Méridien in Dhaka.
He said general people feel insecure if law and order situation deteriorates in the country. “The conventional criminal justice system is grossly faulty and influenced. General people’s confidence in justice system is going down,” Dr Mizan said.
He said, “The problems in criminal justice system are needed to be identified and solved. If law enforcers refuse to accept victims’ general diaries or first information reports [FIR], to whom people will turn to?” he said raising question.
Meanwhile, the autopsy report of murdered college
student Sohagi Jahan Tonu is yet not submitted. The doctor who is heading the team to perform the second post-mortem, has said that it will take a few more days to get the final report.
“We’ve met on Saturday to finalise the autopsy report. But we still don’t have the report from the DNA tests yet. Hope, we’ll able to submit the report soon,” Dr Kamal Prasad Saha, head of forensics at Comilla Medical College Hospital (CMCH), said on Sunday.
On Mar 20, Tonu’s body was found within several yards of her home at Comilla Cantonment where her father works as an office assistant. Police said she was raped before being murdered but the report of her first autopsy, released on Apr 4, dismissed the possibility while being inconclusive about the cause of death.
But four days before that, her body was exhumed from Comilla’s Mirzapur village for another autopsy following a court order. Police’s Criminal Investigation Department [CID] have been probing the murder of the Victoria College student which led to huge protests among students across the campuses. The protesters have blamed the authorities of trying to cover up the actual findings.
The CID investigators, who have interrogated nine individuals including four from Tonu’s family, have failed to make any arrest.
Mother of the victim Anwara Begum recently alleged that two soldiers in the cantonment, Sergeant Jahid and Sepoy Jahid, knew what had actually happened to Tonu.
National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman has said that delay of the investigation into Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case has raised doubt among the people about nabbing the real culprits.
People have expressed doubt that the murder case would be diverted, the NHRC said on Sunday while addressing an international conference on Human Rights and Criminal Justice Delivery System in Bangladesh at Le Méridien in Dhaka.
He said general people feel insecure if law and order situation deteriorates in the country. “The conventional criminal justice system is grossly faulty and influenced. General people’s confidence in justice system is going down,” Dr Mizan said.
He said, “The problems in criminal justice system are needed to be identified and solved. If law enforcers refuse to accept victims’ general diaries or first information reports [FIR], to whom people will turn to?” he said raising question.
Meanwhile, the autopsy report of murdered college
student Sohagi Jahan Tonu is yet not submitted. The doctor who is heading the team to perform the second post-mortem, has said that it will take a few more days to get the final report.
“We’ve met on Saturday to finalise the autopsy report. But we still don’t have the report from the DNA tests yet. Hope, we’ll able to submit the report soon,” Dr Kamal Prasad Saha, head of forensics at Comilla Medical College Hospital (CMCH), said on Sunday.
On Mar 20, Tonu’s body was found within several yards of her home at Comilla Cantonment where her father works as an office assistant. Police said she was raped before being murdered but the report of her first autopsy, released on Apr 4, dismissed the possibility while being inconclusive about the cause of death.
But four days before that, her body was exhumed from Comilla’s Mirzapur village for another autopsy following a court order. Police’s Criminal Investigation Department [CID] have been probing the murder of the Victoria College student which led to huge protests among students across the campuses. The protesters have blamed the authorities of trying to cover up the actual findings.
The CID investigators, who have interrogated nine individuals including four from Tonu’s family, have failed to make any arrest.
Mother of the victim Anwara Begum recently alleged that two soldiers in the cantonment, Sergeant Jahid and Sepoy Jahid, knew what had actually happened to Tonu.
