“Why ask me how my daughter died? Am I the accused?” said Yar Hossain, father of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, with tears rolling down his cheeks.
Standing by the grave of his daughter yesterday, Yar Hossain told reporters that whoever questions them, they ask how Tonu had died.
“The accused could tell what pain they inflicted on my daughter while killing her. I am the complainant. I want justice for my daughter’s murder,” said Yar.
“I want the prime minister’s intervention so that I get justice for my daughter’s killing,” added the bereaved father.
Yar Hossain – in a white shirt and a scalp cap – kept wiping his tears with a handkerchief. He came to Tonu’s grave around 10:15am as he knew that her daughter’s body would be exhumed for further post mortem examination as ordered by a court.
The father prayed beside the grave of his daughter and waited for the officials to arrive.
“I have come to see my daughter for one last time…” he told journalists.
“Tonu’s mother also wanted to come, but I have not brought her as she is already ill from the bereavement of Tonu’s death,” he said.
The officials arrived and started their work around 10:30am. Around 11am they hurried towards their vehicle with the body in a white body bag.
Yar Hossain cried, throwing out his hands: “Let me see my Tonu once...”
He broke down in frustration. Accompanying villagers held him but they also did not have any word of consolation.
Yar Hossain told journalists that the Rapid Action Battalion had taken them on March 25 night saying an accused had been arrested.
“But instead of showing us any accused, they asked me and my ill wife many unnecessary questions,” he said.
