Brac student Sanjana’s suicide: Father remanded

A Dhaka court placed Shaheen Islam, father of Brac University student Sanjana Mosaddeka in a case filed over abetting her suicide, on a one-day remand.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shuvra Chakraborty granted the remand order on Thursday (September 01) after Sub-Inspector of Dakshinkhan Police Station Rezia Khatun, also the investigation officer of the case, produced the accused before the court with seven-day remand.

Earlier, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Shaheen Islam from Mymensingh’s Gafargaon on Wednesday (August 31) morning.

Shaheen had gone into hiding since his 21-year-old daughter allegedly jumped off a building and died.

Sanjana, a seventh semester student of the English department at the Brac University, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a 10-storey building’s rooftop at Dakshinkhan’s Mollarhat area on Saturday afternoon (August 27). Following this, her mother Umme Salma filed a case in this connection.

Before killing herself, Sanjana wrote a suicide note that reads – “My father is responsible for my death. It is possible to live with even animals but not with an inhuman. He is an abusive rapist who did not even spare house maids. With me begins his tormenting fate.”