No headway in charge framing in Zahida murder case in Magura

The case was transferred to the criminal investigation department (CID) in July this year for further investigation and submission of fresh charge-sheet following a 'Naraji' (no-confidence) petition regarding earlier charge-sheet of the detective branch (DB) of police.

After investigation for about eight months of filing of the case, DB police inspector Shahidul Islam submitted two charge-sheets on April 26 this year under Section 302/34 of Bangladesh Penal Code and Section 9 (Cha) (Kha) of the Woman and Child Repression Prevention Act, 2000.

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Zahida Khatun, daughter of a poor farmer named Raihan Joarder of Boroichara village in Sreepur upazila appeared in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination in 2002 from Dariapur college.

She secured first division in the HSC examination from Humanities group. But she could not know the result as she was gang-raped and strangled by local miscreants allegedly led by Mamun of Dariapur village on July 5, 2002 while she was returning from her friend's house at noon.