Joynal Abedin Khan :
A forensic team of Comilla Medical College has conducted the second autopsy of the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
A three-member team led by Dr Kamada Prasad Shaha, Head of the Forensic Department of the medical college, conducted the autopsy and collected necessary samples for investigation.
Later the body was handed over the family members of Tonu around 6:00pm. The body was buried in her previous grave.
Earlier, the body was exhumed for conducting a fresh autopsy, 10 days after she was found murdered inside the Comilla cantonment area.
The body was exhumed from a graveyard at Mirzapur village under Muradnagar upazila on Wednesday morning.
A team led by Comilla District Executive Magistrate Lutfun Nahar exhumed the body in the presence of Dhaka CID’s Special Police Super Dr Nazmul Karim, Comilla Police Super Md Shah Abidin Hossain and Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain.
The body has been sent to Comilla Medical College Hospital following her exhumation, said Comilla Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Abid Hossain.
Comilla’s Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Joynaf Begum on Monday ordered police to exhume Tonu’s body.
The necessity for exhuming the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu for a fresh autopsy has raised questions about the investigators’ sincerity in probing the murder.
The first autopsy on the body was conducted on Mach 21, a day after the Tonu’s body was found in the Comilla Cantonment.
With the autopsy report yet to be released, detectives obtained a fresh exhumation order from a Comilla court on Monday.
“I want to know who should be held responsible for the lapse in the first autopsy,” Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain told the reporters.
“I also respect the court order,” said Yaar Hossain, “But I have a question to the authorities as to why should there be a second autopsy?”
Yaar also questioned what made the investigators realise seven days after the first autopsy that they needed a fresh one.
“I want justice. I seek the honourable Prime Minister’s intervention to ensure fair investigation,” said Tonu’s father, an office assistant of the Cantonment Board.
He also said though he had been disappointed seeing no arrest so far, he did not want police to harass innocent people for the crime.
When asked if he was under any pressure of any kind, he said, “There is no pressure. I am devastated because I lost my daughter. My health is not good either, so I do not go out.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of students of Eden College took to the street, protesting the murder of Tonu.
Some 300 students formed a human chain in front of the College on Wednesday morning, demanding the punishment to the killers.
Later, the protesters blocked the Azimpur bus stand road.
The move has raised questions among those who have been staging demonstrations for justice since the news of Tanu’s murder flashed on the social networking platforms before the mainstream media picked it up.
Comilla Victoria Government College’s second-year history student and cultural activist Tonu was found murdered about 400 yards from her house inside the Comilla Cantonment on the night of March 20, according to her family members.
Her father Yaar Hossain, an office assistant of the Cantonment Board, filed a case with Kotwali Police Station the following day without naming anyone.
Investigators have so far failed to make any breakthrough. The case was initially handed over to DB on March 25, but within few days, the Criminal Investigation Department was given the charge of investigation on Tuesday, its Special Superintendent of Organised Crime Mirza Abdullah Hel Baki said.
