Newly-wed girl kills herself
A newly-wed teenage girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at Bhasantek slum in the capital Sunday night. Deceased Tania Akhter, 15, was a garments worker at Vision Apparels Ltd in Mirpur. Police arrested Tania's husband Jibon Rana, 22, driver of a human hauler, and his father Jalal Sikder. Daughter of a poor fisherman, Tania fell in love with Rana and they got married on Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year, Halima Begum, sister-in-law of the deceased, told The Daily Star. As her in-laws did not give consent to the marriage, they unleashed their grudge on the bride from the very next day of the wedding, Halima claimed. Her husband and his family also used to restrict her from visiting her parents and abuse her both physically and verbally, she said. “I saw horrible blade cuts in her arms when Tania came over and borrowed Tk 100 from me last Friday,” said Halima. Police recovered the body from her house around 11:30pm on Sunday and sent it to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy. The morgue authorities cleared the case as suicide. Tania's family alleged that Rana's family might have killed her and hung the body to the ceiling fan to make it appear as a case of suicide. Bhasantek Police registered an unnatural death case in this connection.
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