Staff Reporter :
The autopsy of the body of nurse Shahinoor Akter alias Tania, has found evidence of gang-rape before murder.
The post mortem conducted at Kishoreganj General Hospital on Tuesday found injury marks on her nose, neck, legs and hands, Dr Md Habibur Rahman, Civil Surgeon of Kishoreganj, told our district correspondent.
The injury marks bore the signs of serious scuffle and there was a fracture in the back side of her head and her skull was also bore mark of injury broken, said the civil surgeon.
“The profuse bleeding from her head might be a cause of her death,” suggested the Civil Surgeon.
The forensic doctors also found bleeding in the victim’s private parts, said the Civil Surgeon quoting the doctors.
Tania, who used to work at Ibne Sina Hospital’s Kalyanpur branch in Dhaka, was killed by the rapists while returning home by a bus in Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila on Monday night.
In the meantime, five persons, including the bus driver Md Nuruzzaman and its helper Lalon Mia were held by police for their alleged involvement in the rape and murder of Tania.
Police on Wednesday arrested three more persons for their alleged involvement in the incident, said Khalilur Rahman Patwari, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bajitpur Police Station.
Earlier, the law enforcers arrested bus driver Md Nuruzzaman, 39, and its helper Lalon Mia, 33, on Tuesday.
All of the accused were produced before a Kishoreganj court with a 10-day remand prayer on Wednesday, but the court granted remand for eight days each, said Taufiq Ahmed, Court Inspector of Kishoreganj.
The victim’s father lodged a murder and rape case with the Bajitpur Police Station naming four including the driver and helper and some unknown persons on Tuesday night.
Tania boarded a Swarnalata Paribahan bus from the capital’s Mohakhali to go to her home in Lohajury in Katiadi around 3:00pm on Monday.
On her way, she spoke with her father and brother Sujan Mia several times on the phone. The bus reached Katiadi around 8:00pm where 16 of the 19 passengers got down. Two others got down at Ujanchar, said Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Katiadi Police Station, quoting family members.
From that point on, she was the only passenger as the bus headed towards Pirijpur, from where her home is some 10 minutes’ rickshaw ride, police and family members said.
Meanwhile, Tania was laid to rest beside her mother in the family grave yard on Tuesday night, said her father Giasuddin.
