Exhume Japanese woman�s body: Court
UNB
A Dhaka court yesterday asked the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to exhume the body of Japanese woman Hiyori Miyeta who reportedly died of cholera in the citys Uttara area, reports UNB. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sheikh Hafizur Rahman passed the order after a hearing on a petition asking Dhaka district magistrate that he will appoint an executive magistrate for exhuming the body of Hiyori Miyeta for autopsy. On Monday, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Uttara East Police Station Abu Bakar Miah, also investigation officer of the case, filed a petition to the court seeking a directive for conducting an autopsy on the body after exhuming it for proper investigation.
On Tuesday (Nov 24), a court here placed five people, arrested in connection with the death of Hiyori Miyeta, on a four-day remand. Those remanded are Maruful Islam, Rashedul Islam, M Fakhrul, Jahangir Hossain and Dr Bimal Chandra Sheelacquaintances of the Japanese national.
A Japanese Embassy official filed a general diary with Uttara East Police Station on November 19 mentioning that Hiyori Miyeta, living in Bangladesh for 10 years, had been missing for 24 days. Miyetas mother, living in Japan, informed the Japan Embassy in Dhaka that she had not been able to communicate with her daughter since August 26. Miyeta used to live at a residential hotel, City Homes, in Uttara Sector-6 and run business with her friends in Dhaka. Following the filing of the GD, police interrogated some Miyetas friends in this connection. Her acquaintances informed police that Miyeta died of cholera on October 29 and she was buried at a city corporation graveyard in Banani on the same day.
