A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka to exhume the body of Nayar Sultana, a well-known small screen actress, for a fresh autopsy.
Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha passed the order in response to a petition filed by the victim’s mother Razia Sultana.
The court also ordered the Dhaka Deputy Commissioner to appoint an executive magistrate for exhumation and form a three-member committee, which would comprise the head of Sir Salimullah Medical College, to perform a fresh autopsy on the body.
The autopsy report was ordered to be submitted to the court by December 15.
Report of the previous autopsy performed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital concluded that Nayar had committed suicide.
But her mother rejected the report and filed a petition demanding a fresh autopsy be carried out.
Nayar, who played “Tuni” in the hugely popular TV production Eishob Din Ratri, took her own life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan on October 16 at her Gulshan residence.
Police detained her husband Al-Amin hours after the incident as Razia lodged a case with Gulshan police station accusing him of inciting Nayar to kill herself.
On November 16, police produced him before a court in Dhaka and petitioned for a 10-day remand but the court sent him to prison after rejecting the petition.