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Primary test suggests it was suicide

Says a forensic expert; Afsana's family rejects

Staff Correspondent
One of the doctors who performed autopsy of Afsana Ferdous, an architecture technology
student at a polytechnic institute at Mirpur, said primary examination of her body suggested she had committed suicide.
"It primarily appears to be a suicide. But we cannot say anything conclusive until the visceral reports are available," said AKM Shafiuzzaman, assistant professor of forensic medicine at Dhaka Medical College.
Members of her family and student wings of various leftist political parties, however, rejected the observation, claiming that she had been murdered and they demanded immediate arrest of her killer”.
There was no sign of injury on her body except the strangulation mark on her throat, Shafiuzzaman said.
The autopsy report received by police yesterday did not mention whether the death was due to homicide or suicide, said Masood Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Mirpur Zone).
Afsana's brother Fazle Rabbi said, "It was a murder, not a suicide Claims of her suicide are not acceptable to us.”
Meanwhile, investigation officer of the case, sub-
inspector Fazlu of Kafrul Police Station, said police were yet to determine the location of Afsana's death and they so far did not make any arrest in this connection.
On August 13, two unidentified individuals brought and deserted Afsana unconscious at Al-Helal Hospital in the city's Mirpur. She was identified as a student of SAIC Institute of Management and Technology at Mirpur.
Police later received her dead body and filed a case of unnatural death with Kafrul Police Station.
Afsana's brother Fazle Rabbi and Chhatra Union leaders — who claimed Afsana as an activist of their
party - have been holding Habibur Rahman Robin - a Chhatra League leader at Tejgaon College - responsible for her death.
At a rally at Shahbagh under the banner of Mass Movement against Murder-Rape-Militancy in the afternoon, MM Akash, professor of economics department at Dhaka University, said, "Everyone must be equal in the eyes of the law, but we haven't seen justice in the gruesome murders of journalist couple Sagar-Runi, Narayanganj youth Tanvir Mohammad Toki and Comilla Victoria College Student Sohagi JahanTonu."
Urging all to put pressure on the government for
upholding justice, Akash said, "The perpetrators are not being arrested as they have political affiliations."
Speaking at a press confer-ence held at Dhaka University by Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, a platform of several leftist student wings of various political parties, Lucky Akter said, "It was a well-planned murder. The post-mortem report has been tampered."
She reiterated that her party, Chhatra Union, would march to the Home Ministry today and submit a memorandum, demanding arrest of the perpetrators.
Student leaders of the platform also declared a rally at Shahbagh on august 25.