Staff Reporter :
The family members of slain Afsana Ferdous, who was allegedly killed by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Habibur Rahman Robin and his cohorts, fear of regulated police investigation as the killers are trying to influence the inquiry after the mysterious murder.
They also claimed that Robin and his cohorts continued to threat the victim’s family members to dismiss the murder case.
According to an allegation, the killers taking the advantage of their association with the ruling party’s student wing are trying to file another case as part of harassing the victim’s family.
Syeda Yasmin, mother of Afsana, said, “I was astonished when a man named Sourav informed me the death news of her daughter over phone. Later, another man named Babu informed over phone: that the body had been sent to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).”
“Robin’s cousin had called them several times over the phone and proposed negotiation. Some other people identified themselves as BCL leaders and asked them to come over for talks,” the victim’s mother said
Contacted, Hafiz Uddin, Sub-Inspector and also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, said that they got many information in connection with the murder.
“The alleged killers — Robin, Babu and Sourav – have already been taken under
the net of law enforcers and they would be arrest anytime” the police official said.
The IO claimed that the progress of the investigation is quite satisfactory terming it as a ‘sensitive’ case.
Primary signs indicated that the victim had been strangled with a rope after being raped, the IO said.
The Kafrul police were notified after the doctor found marks on the neck, he said.
“We have seized the CCTV footage from Al-Helal Hospital and hope to identify the two men who had taken the girl’s body there,” he said.
He said that they were now analyzing some footage from the CCTV cameras of Al-Helal Hospital — the place where Afsana’s body had been dropped off by two young men.
He, however, refused to give the case number or details about the case.
According to family sources, Afsana used to have a relationship with Habibur Rahman Robin, the organising secretary of Chhatra League’s Tejgaon College unit, but recently the two had a falling out.
Afsana’s elder brother Fazle Rabbi said, he has received phone calls from people identifying themselves as Robin’s family members. He expressed his fear that Robin might now try to influence the findings in the autopsy report to hider the proper investigation.
Rabbi’s friend Abdur Razzak Raju, who also received similar phone calls, said a man named Dipu had identified himself as a cousin of Robin and asked Afsana’s family to sit in a meeting in the capital so that a settlement could be reached for not pursuing a murder case.
Asked when a case would be filed, the victim’s brother Rabbi said it would take until Friday (today) to file a case in the city as his family lives in Thakurgaon.
However, Kafrul Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shikder Md Shamim Hossain said, Afsana’s uncle had filed a case in this connection on Sunday afternoon.
On Saturday, the body of Afsana Ferdous, a final-year student of Architecture Technology at Mirpur’s SAIC Institute of Management and Technology, was dropped off at the Al-Helal Hospital by two unidentified men.
According to relatives, Afsana’s mother, who lives in Thakurgaon, first received a phone call from an unknown number on Saturday night and was told that Afsana’s body was being kept at Dhanmondi’s Bangladesh Medical College Hospital.
However, when her relatives in Dhaka went there in search of Afsana body, they were told there was no body matching her description at the hospital.
Soon after, another anonymous caller phoned the family and said Afsana’s body was actually at Mirpur’s Al-Helal Hospital. But authorities at the Mirpur hospital said the body was now in custody of Kafrul Police Station.
When the family went to the police station and showed a picture of Afsana, the on-duty policemen told them that someone looking like her was at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The family members of slain Afsana Ferdous, who was allegedly killed by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Habibur Rahman Robin and his cohorts, fear of regulated police investigation as the killers are trying to influence the inquiry after the mysterious murder.
They also claimed that Robin and his cohorts continued to threat the victim’s family members to dismiss the murder case.
According to an allegation, the killers taking the advantage of their association with the ruling party’s student wing are trying to file another case as part of harassing the victim’s family.
Syeda Yasmin, mother of Afsana, said, “I was astonished when a man named Sourav informed me the death news of her daughter over phone. Later, another man named Babu informed over phone: that the body had been sent to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).”
“Robin’s cousin had called them several times over the phone and proposed negotiation. Some other people identified themselves as BCL leaders and asked them to come over for talks,” the victim’s mother said
Contacted, Hafiz Uddin, Sub-Inspector and also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, said that they got many information in connection with the murder.
“The alleged killers — Robin, Babu and Sourav – have already been taken under
the net of law enforcers and they would be arrest anytime” the police official said.
The IO claimed that the progress of the investigation is quite satisfactory terming it as a ‘sensitive’ case.
Primary signs indicated that the victim had been strangled with a rope after being raped, the IO said.
The Kafrul police were notified after the doctor found marks on the neck, he said.
“We have seized the CCTV footage from Al-Helal Hospital and hope to identify the two men who had taken the girl’s body there,” he said.
He said that they were now analyzing some footage from the CCTV cameras of Al-Helal Hospital — the place where Afsana’s body had been dropped off by two young men.
He, however, refused to give the case number or details about the case.
According to family sources, Afsana used to have a relationship with Habibur Rahman Robin, the organising secretary of Chhatra League’s Tejgaon College unit, but recently the two had a falling out.
Afsana’s elder brother Fazle Rabbi said, he has received phone calls from people identifying themselves as Robin’s family members. He expressed his fear that Robin might now try to influence the findings in the autopsy report to hider the proper investigation.
Rabbi’s friend Abdur Razzak Raju, who also received similar phone calls, said a man named Dipu had identified himself as a cousin of Robin and asked Afsana’s family to sit in a meeting in the capital so that a settlement could be reached for not pursuing a murder case.
Asked when a case would be filed, the victim’s brother Rabbi said it would take until Friday (today) to file a case in the city as his family lives in Thakurgaon.
However, Kafrul Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shikder Md Shamim Hossain said, Afsana’s uncle had filed a case in this connection on Sunday afternoon.
On Saturday, the body of Afsana Ferdous, a final-year student of Architecture Technology at Mirpur’s SAIC Institute of Management and Technology, was dropped off at the Al-Helal Hospital by two unidentified men.
According to relatives, Afsana’s mother, who lives in Thakurgaon, first received a phone call from an unknown number on Saturday night and was told that Afsana’s body was being kept at Dhanmondi’s Bangladesh Medical College Hospital.
However, when her relatives in Dhaka went there in search of Afsana body, they were told there was no body matching her description at the hospital.
Soon after, another anonymous caller phoned the family and said Afsana’s body was actually at Mirpur’s Al-Helal Hospital. But authorities at the Mirpur hospital said the body was now in custody of Kafrul Police Station.
When the family went to the police station and showed a picture of Afsana, the on-duty policemen told them that someone looking like her was at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
