Investigators await 2nd autopsy report

Dr Nazmul Karim Khan, special superintendent of police of Dhaka CID for Comilla and Noakhali zone, said the first post-mortem report had missed several issues. “We hope to get those from the second one.” He said Tonu had been murdered and investigators were working hard to find the perpetrators. Sources said investigators were focusing on the call list of Tonu’s mobile phone, especially the last few days before her death. They were checking who Tonu had called and also callers whose calls the girl had not received. The Police Bureau of Investigation (PIB) is also working on the case and has already quizzed Tonu’s family several times. Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain got angry when he was asked about the PIB interrogation and told the Dhaka Tribune that somebody was trying to manipulate the probe and defame his daughter by extensively focusing on the call list of her phone. “I want my son back” Meanwhile, ten days have passed but Mizanur Rahman Sohag, friend of Tonu’s younger brother Anwar Hossain, could not be found till yesterday. Sohag was allegedly picked up by some plain-clothes men identifying themselves as law enforcement officials from his house at Narayansar village of Comilla’s Burichang upazila on March 28. Her mother Shahida Akhter claimed that Sohag had been picked up by some eight to ten plain-clothes men. “One of the men said they needed Sohag for some reasons and he would return home the next day. But when he did not come back, we went to RAB and police. We also filed a general diary with Burichang police station but my son is still missing,” she said. “Now all I want is the return of my son.” But police and RAB said they had not picked up Sohag. Tonu’s younger brother Anwar said Sohag is his friend from school. “After we completed school, we maintained regular contacts. I have no idea where he is but I feel sorry for him.”Story of the ubiquitous Facebook profile photoOne of Tonu’s photos has been widely used by people as profile pictures on Facebook to protest against her death. The picture, which shows Tonu in a tea garden, was taken by Al Amin, former president of Comilla Victoria Government College Theatre. “I captured the photo last month as per Tonu’s request, which she made when I was walking down the tea garden to have a chat with one of the theatre members. She said she would use the photo as her profile picture on Facebook,” said Al Amin. “Now thousands of Facebook users have used that picture as their profile pictures but the one who wanted to do so could not do it.” Tonu joined the college theatre in April last year and had been a key member of the group since then. “She was basically a dancer and a background musician for plays,” said Rashedul Islam Jibon, president of the group. Tonu’s father told the Dhaka Tribune that his daughter had attended several cultural programmes inside the cantonment and her photo also appeared in several souvenirs of a cantonment-based publication. “She did not take money for participating in the cultural programmes. She just enjoyed performing. “If I did not let her go out on the day she was killed and could keep her in the house, she would have been alive today,” said Yaar. “The body was found inside the cantonment and it is quite impossible that nobody saw how she died. The place where her body was found is patrolled by military police at regular intervals,” added the father.