Fifty-one eminent citizens on Sunday expressed concern over the submission of a final report by the police in the case filed against Bashundhara Group managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir on charges of abetting the suicide of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia on April 26.
In a statement, they demanded re-investigation into the case.
They said that the accused, Sayem Sobhan, was neither arrested nor it was known to them whether he was interrogated at the police station.
Dhaka University professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury, Gonoshasthaya Kendra trustee Zafrullah Chowdhury, rights activist Sultana Kamal, Nijera Kori coordinator Khushi Kabir, Power and Participation Research Centre executive president Hossain Zillur Rahman, former cabinet secretary Ali Imam Mazumder, Transparency International Bangladesh executive director Iftekharuzzaman, Sushashoner Jonno Nagarik secretary Badiul Alam Majumder, Jahangirnagar University economics professor Anu Muhammad, CAMPE executive director Rasheda K Chowdhury, Dhaka University professors Asif Nazrul, MM Akash and Gitiara Nasreen, Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation’s Clinical Neurosciences Centre director Naila Z Khan and Manusher Jonno Foundation executive director Shaheen Anam, among others, signed the statement.
They said that there was enough scope to express doubt whether the case against Sayem Sobhan was properly investigated by the police.
Gulshan police station officer-in-charge Abul Hasan submitted a final report to the court of chief metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on July 19 dropping the name of Sayem Sobhan in the case.
Nusrat Jahan, sister of Mosarat, filed the case against Sayem after police had recovered her body hanging from a ceiling fan in a flat at Gulshan on April 26.
Less than three months after the filing of the case, the police completed the investigation on July 18.
