'Suicide' of Sanjana: Father sent to jail

A court in Dhaka has sent BRAC University student Sanjana Mosaddika's father Shaheen Alam to jail in a case filed against him for allegedly abetting her to commit suicide. 

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Humayun Kabir on Saturday passed the order after police had produced him before the court following the completion of a one-day remand.

Earlier on August 31, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Shaheen from Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh district. 

On September 1, police presented him before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shuvra Chakrabarty and sought a seven-day remand but the court remanded him for a day.

Sanjana, 21, reportedly killed herself by jumping from the rooftop of a 12-storey building in Dakshinkhan Mollarhat area of capital Dhaka on August 27.

On that night, her mother lodged a case against her father in this connection.

It was learned that Shaheen Alam remarried secretly five years ago, and his wife divorced him two months ago when she knew the matter. 

Since then, he allegedly stopped paying Sanjana's university semester fees and incidental expenses.  

Police, however, recovered a suicide note from the house of Sanjana in which she blamed her father for her death.

The note contained, "My father is responsible for my death. One can live with animals in a house but not with inhuman. An oppressing rapist who even did not spare his mad, I am the beginning of this tragic fate."

JA/SU