UNB, Comilla :
Barely a week after the DNA test report by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) revealed evidence of rape of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, legal notices have been served on the physicians who conducted autopsies on the slain college student’s body.
President of Bangladesh Jatiya Mohila Ainjibi Samity Advocate Salma Ali on behalf of Tonu’s father sent notices to three doctors asking why legal action will not be taken against them for not getting any evidence of rape in the first autopsy and for making delay in revealing the second autopsy report.
The notices were sent to Mohsin-uz-Zaman Chowdhury, principle of Comilla Medical College Hospital, Dr Kamada Prashad Shaha, head of the Forensic Department of the hospital, and Dr Sharmin Sultana, who conducted the first autopsy.
The body of Tonu, 19, a second year history student of Victoria College and a member of Victoria College Theatre, was recovered from Comilla’s Moinamati Cantonment area on the night of March 20.
Police suspected that she had been raped before the murder. The following day, victim’s father filed a case with Kotwali Model Police Station in connection with the incident. Tonu was buried at a grave at Mirzapur village in Muradnagar upazila on March 21.
Later, on March 29, Tonu’s body was exhumed for the second autopsy as the doctors didn’t find any evidence of rape in the first autopsy. On May 17, the CID disclosed that it found evidence of rape on Tonu’s body in its DNA test. The killing of the college student sparked widespread protests across the country.
