Mystery shrouds woman's death
Body exhumed for second autopsy
The body of a newlywed woman was exhumed from a graveyard in Pallabi area in the city in presence of a magistrate yesterday and sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for a second autopsy.
Family sources alleged that in-laws of the deceased Moyna Akhter Jui, 20, beat her to death at their Mirajnagar residence in the city's Kadamtoli on March 10 for dowry of Tk 2 lakh.
Her parents refused to accept the first autopsy at Sir Salimullah Medical College morgue that reported it was a suicide and appealed to a court for a fresh autopsy.
Jui's family alleged that her husband Mohammad Nuruzzaman, a mason of Mirajnagar, married Jui in August 2010 after an affair and began demanding the dowry from October to go to Saudi Arabia for a job.
Jui's father Jalal Dewan said Jui was murdered, as Tk 1 lakh was pending. Her uncle Selim Dewan said her in-laws claimed she committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan with a scarf. Jui's family then filed a murder case against six people including Nuruzzaman.
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