In-laws delay housewife's autopsy for over 30 hrs
In-laws allegedly tortured a housewife to death at Kalidaskhali village in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi on Friday evening and forcibly held back the body for over 30 hours, said the deceased's brother.
Saidur Rahman, brother of the deceased, Lavli Khatun, 30, said police arrived on the scene at around 3:00pm on Saturday and, in support of the in-laws, tried to persuade him to drop legal proceedings.
On his insistence, police afterwards carried the body on a carrier behind a bicycle to Bagha Police Station where it was kept that night. It was taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy yesterday morning, said Saidur.
Lavli was finally laid to rest at a grave near her father's home in Kushtia yesterday evening.
Saidur said the husband, Ismail Sheikh, informed him that Lavli, mother of three children, committed suicide on Friday afternoon.
On arrival at the in-laws', he found the body hanging from a ceiling fan and bearing numerous cuts and bruises. The only people present were Ismail's brother-in-law Khoaz Shikdar and brother Khidir Sikdar, he said.
Initially the duo prevented him from taking the body to the police station and offered him money so as not to press charges, he said, adding that the locals too denied providing any form of transport.
Police recorded a case under the women and child repression prevention act, stating that Lavli was forced into committing suicide, accusing Ismail, his brother and a local, said Ali Ahmed Hasmi, officer-in-charge of Bagha Police Station.
The OC denied Saidur's allegations, stating that the case would be converted to that of murder if the autopsy reports prove it a homicide.
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