A Dhaka court on Tuesday asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit the probe report by March 13, in a case filed against Bashundhara Group bosses and six others on charges of rape and murder of college student Mosarrat Jahan Munia.
Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Yeasmin Ara passed the order after Investigation Officer Golam Moktar Ashrafuddin, also an inspector of PBI, failed to submit the report on Wednesday, the scheduled date for submission.
This is the eighth time the probe report submission has been deferred.
On September 6, 2021, Munia’s elder sister Nusrat Jahan Tania filed the case with Dhaka’s Eighth Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal against Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, his son and Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, and six others.
The others named in the case are the Bashundhara chairman’s wife Afroza Akter, Anvir’s wife Sabrina Sobhan, showbiz models Faria Mahbub Piasha and Saifa Rahman Mim, flat owner Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon and his wife Sharmim Akhter.
After an initial hearing, Judge Mafruza Parveen asked Gulshan police to accept the allegations as FIR.
Earlier, she had filed a case accusing Anvir of abetting the suicide of Munia. A Dhaka court cleared Anvir of the charges on August 18 after holding a hearing on the police’s final report. The court also rejected the no-confidence petition filed by the plaintiff.
Police recovered Munia’s body hanging from a ceiling fan in her flat at Gulshan on April 26.
The duo had been in a relationship for around two years and Anvir visited Munia’s flat in Gulshan regularly, police said after preliminary investigation.
