Police recovered the hanging body of a Dhaka University student from a female hostel in Dhaka’s Elephant Road early Monday.
The deceased was identified as Anika Meherunnesa Sahi, a student of the Department of Management at Dhaka University.
Anika was the daughter of Firoz Hossain from Nabin Haat village in Joypurhat Sadar upazila.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Biraj Mistry of the New Market police station said that they found her hanging in her room at a girls' dormitory in Maksud Tower, a student hostel on Elephant Road.
She was later taken to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 1:45am, where the on-duty doctor declared her dead.
Officer-in-charge (OC) Mohsin Uddin of the New Market police station said that Sahi had been living with several other girls in the hostel.
He suggested that she might have taken her own life due to a love affair.
However, further investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of death, he added.
The body was sent to the DMCH morgue for an autopsy, he said.