Hanging body of rape victim July martyr’s daughter recovered

Police have recovered the hanging body of the college student daughter of Jasim Uddin, a martyr of the July-August movement, from a rented house in the capital’s Shekhertek area.

Her body was recovered around 9 pm on Saturday (April 26) and rushed to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared her dead.

Kamal Chandra Dhar, Sub-Inspector (SI) of Adabor Police Station, said: “The hanging body of that college student was recovered and was later taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.”

Family sources said that on the evening of March 18, while traveling from her home in Pangasia Union of Patuakhali to her maternal grandparents’ house, the young woman was gang-raped. She later filed a case against the accused at Dumki Police Station.

Family members alleged that since the incident, she had been suffering from severe mental trauma. Fearing the prolonged judicial process, she became deeply depressed. For this, she might have committed suicide.

Jasim Uddin, the deceased’s father, was shot during a student movement on July 19 in the Mohammadpur area of the capital. He died 10 days later while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He was later buried at his ancestral home in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali.