Tonu’s body exhumed

The body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu was exhumed in Muradnagar upazila of Comilla for a fresh post-mortem examination on Wednesday.

A team led by Lutfur Nahar, executive magistrate of Comilla Sadar upazila, exhumed the body around 11.30am at Mirzapur village under Muradnagar upazila.

A Comilla court ordered the exhumation on Monday, eight days after Tonu’s murder, at the request of the investigation officer to collect DNA samples and perform a second post-mortem examination.

Sohagi Jahan Tonu, 19, a second year history student of Victoria College and a member of Victoria College Theatre, went missing on 20 March, hours after she had gone out of her house at Comilla Mainamati Cantonment for private tuition.

Later, Tonu’s father Yar Hossain found his daughter lying senseless with severe injuries in her body in a bush adjacent to their house.

She was then whisked off to Combined Military Hospital where doctors declared her dead.