Afsana murder case

BCL leader key suspect

The police are yet to identify the killers of Afsana, a college girl, even three days after the murder.
On Saturday, two unidentified youths brought the body of Afsana Ferdous, 24, a final year student of architecture technology at Mirpur’s SAIC Institute of Management and Technology, to a hospital in the city.
Family members alleged that she was murdered in the city after being raped and strangled by two unidentified men who brought her to the hospital.
The police say going by the marks on the neck, Afsana was probably strangled with a rope after being raped. Some employees of Al-Helal Hospital, where her body was brought, said two men had arrived in an auto-rickshaw and asked for a stretcher to admit Afsana to the emergency department.
"When we were lifting her onto the stretcher, the men left, saying they had to pay the auto-rickshaw fare. We waited for sometime, but they never returned," one of the employees said.
Quoting the on-duty doctor at the hospital, the police said Afsana was dead before she was brought to the hospital. Doctors also told the police that they found marks on the neck.
A series of anonymous phone calls to the victim’s family deepened the mystery. According to a relative, Afsana’s mother, who lives in Thakurgaon, first received a phone call from an unknown number on Saturday night. The caller said Afsana’s body was kept at Dhanmondi’s Bangladesh Medical College Hospital.
However, when Afsana's relatives in the city went to the hospital, they were told that there was no body matching her description there.
Soon after, another anonymous caller phoned the family and said Afsana’s body was at Mirpur’s Al-Helal Hospital. But the authorities at the Mirpur hospital said the body was in the custody of Kafrul police station.
When family members went to the police and showed them a picture of Afsana, policemen told them someone looking like her was at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Afsana’s maternal uncle and cousins identified her body at the DMCH morgue at 3am on Sunday.
The hospital authorities carried out the autopsy and handed over the body to the family members. Later, the body was buried at Thakurgaon.
Police sources said they filed a murder case after getting the preliminary autopsy report. The final report is expected within a couple of days.
According to sources close to Afsana’s family, a top leader of the Awami League-backed student organisation, the Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Tejgaon College unit, is a key suspect in the rape and murder case. Afsana had an affair with him, but recently the relationship broke up and Afsana left Tejgaon and shifted to the city’s Manikdi area to avoid the BCL leader.
But some friends patched up the relation around 10 days ago. Only two days before the murder, the affair again broke up. Since then, the BCL leader had been threatening her to keep the relationship. Even after the murder, he, along with his family members and associates, are threatening the victim’s family not to proceed with the case.
Inspector Sikder Mohammad Shamim Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kafrul police station, said they have collected video footage of Al Helal Hospital and its surrounding area to identify the youths who brought the body of Afsana. "If we can catch them, the motive behind the murder would become clear," he added.
The Bangladesh Chhatra Union, a left-leaning student body, organised a human chain at the Shahbagh Intersection, demanding that the killers be caught and punished. Some local organisations also held protest rallies in different districts. Online activists too have raised their voice against Afsana's murder.
Meanwhile, activists of the Tejgaon College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL)  yesterday attacked Chhatra Union leaders of the college moments before organising a rally protesting the killing of Afsana, a press release issued by the Bangladesh Chhatra Union claimed .
Shamim Ahmed, president of Chhatra Union of Tejgaon college unit, Antu Chandra, general secretary, and activists Raju Ahmed and Abu Sayeed were injured in the attack.
Organising secretary of Tejgaon College unit BCL Habibur Rahman is one of the prime accused of Afsana Ferdous killing.

 

 

Afsana murder case

BCL leader key suspect

The police are yet to identify the killers of Afsana, a college girl, even three days after the murder. On Saturday, two unidentified youths brought the body of Afsana Ferdous, 24, a final year student of architecture technology at Mirpurs SAIC Institute of Management and Technology, to a hospital in the city. Family members alleged that she was murdered in the city after being raped and strangled by two unidentified men who brought her to the hospital. The police say going by the marks on the neck, Afsana was probably strangled with a rope after being raped. Some employees of Al-Helal Hospital, where her body was brought, said two men had arrived in an auto-rickshaw and asked for a stretcher to admit Afsana to the emergency department. When we were lifting her onto the stretcher, the men left, saying they had to pay the auto-rickshaw fare. We waited for sometime, but they never returned, one of the employees said. Quoting the on-duty doctor at the hospital, the police said Afsana was dead before she was brought to the hospital. Doctors also told the police that they found marks on the neck. A series of anonymous phone calls to the victims family deepened the mystery. According to a relative, Afsanas mother, who lives in Thakurgaon, first received a phone call from an unknown number on Saturday night. The caller said Afsanas body was kept at Dhanmondis Bangladesh Medical College Hospital. However, when Afsanas relatives in the city went to the hospital, they were told that there was no body matching her description there. Soon after, another anonymous caller phoned the family and said Afsanas body was at Mirpurs Al-Helal Hospital. But the authorities at the Mirpur hospital said the body was in the custody of Kafrul police station. When family members went to the police and showed them a picture of Afsana, policemen told them someone looking like her was at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Afsanas maternal uncle and cousins identified her body at the DMCH morgue at 3am on Sunday. The hospital authorities carried out the autopsy and handed over the body to the family members. Later, the body was buried at Thakurgaon. Police sources said they filed a murder case after getting the preliminary autopsy report. The final report is expected within a couple of days. According to sources close to Afsanas family, a top leader of the Awami League-backed student organisation, the Bangladesh Chhatra Leagues Tejgaon College unit, is a key suspect in the rape and murder case. Afsana had an affair with him, but recently the relationship broke up and Afsana left Tejgaon and shifted to the citys Manikdi area to avoid the BCL leader. But some friends patched up the relation around 10 days ago. Only two days before the murder, the affair again broke up. Since then, the BCL leader had been threatening her to keep the relationship. Even after the murder, he, along with his family members and associates, are threatening the victims family not to proceed with the case. Inspector Sikder Mohammad Shamim Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kafrul police station, said they have collected video footage of Al Helal Hospital and its surrounding area to identify the youths who brought the body of Afsana. If we can catch them, the motive behind the murder would become clear, he added. The Bangladesh Chhatra Union, a left-leaning student body, organised a human chain at the Shahbagh Intersection, demanding that the killers be caught and punished. Some local organisations also held protest rallies in different districts. Online activists too have raised their voice against Afsanas murder. Meanwhile, activists of the Tejgaon College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL) yesterday attacked Chhatra Union leaders of the college moments before organising a rally protesting the killing of Afsana, a press release issued by the Bangladesh Chhatra Union claimed . Shamim Ahmed, president of Chhatra Union of Tejgaon college unit, Antu Chandra, general secretary, and activists Raju Ahmed and Abu Sayeed were injured in the attack. Organising secretary of Tejgaon College unit BCL Habibur Rahman is one of the prime accused of Afsana Ferdous killing.