A Comilla court yesterday granted police the permission to exhume the body of college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, after eight days of her murder, for further investigation. Earlier, Inspector Monzur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Detective Branch of Comilla district police, submitted a petition to the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrates Court for allowing police to exhume the body of the deceased. After a hearing, Magristrate Joynab Begum granted the plea yesterday. However, the date for the exhumation is yet to be fixed, the police official said. Sohagi Jahan Tonu, 19, a second year history student of Victoria College and a member of Victoria College Theatre, went missing on Sunday evening, hours after she went out of her home in Comilla Mynamati Cantonment for private tuition. Later, Tonu’s father Yar Hossain found his daughter senseless with severe injuries on her body at a bush adjacent to their home. She was then rushed to the Combined Military Hospital in Comilla where doctors declared her dead. It is suspected that she had been raped before the murder. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Students Union has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the government on the issue of the Tonu Rape incident, otherwise they will call for a strike in all educational institutions in the country, reports UNB. The ultimatum calls for the arrest and punishment of the rapist and murderer of Tonu was delivered from a press briefing held at Modhur canteen at Dhaka University. They also declared that there will be a rally at the premises of Raju sculpture on 29th March against rapist of Tonu. And they will go to PM office on 31st March to ask her that why she is silent over the rape incident and killing. G M Jilani Shuvo, secretary of Bangladesh Student’s Union, Lucky Akhter president of Bangladesh Student’s Union, and other leaders were present at the press briefing.