Mobi at a press conference in Brahmanbaria on Saturday said vested quarters might have 'compelled' her family members to commit suicide.

Eitght of her family members and a maid servant committed suicide jumping under the wheels of a Mymensingh bound train at Kashor in the district town on Wednesday. An unnatural death (UD) case was filed with Jamalpur Railway Police in this connection.

Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Abdus Salam Bhuiyan, also Officer-in-Charge of the police station met Mobi in Brahmanbaria yesterday to record her statement. " The statement of Mobi might help us find out clues", said the IO.

The IO also told The Daily Star that he talked with Mobi on social life and religious belief in her family. After the death of Anwar, the family members became devoted to his eldest son Golam Mohiuddin Mahi. Mahi was a brilliant student and took higher education in Philosophy, he said.

"The family might have faced mental depression after the killing of Mahi in 2003 in Dhaka", the official added. "We must contact the relatives and locals for the sake of the investigation".

Additional Police Superintendent SM Akhtaruzzaman, quoting the diaries found at the house of late Anwar Hossain, said there is no sign of provocation or repression in the diaries supporting Mobi's claim. One of the diaries said problems arose with the locals in 1995 and in 2000 after the death of her father Anwar Hossain Fakir over his burial. But there is no writing on the enmity with local people, he added. The name of Mobi was not mentioned anywhere in the diaries, police sources informed.

Police observed, all the family members followed the ideology of Anwar as they believed that he was a man of 'super human quality'. They also said, Mobi could be a source of more information regarding the suicide.

Mobi pointed her fingers at various quarters including those opposed in 2000 to bury Anwar Hossain Fakir as per his last wish. She also claimed that some 'greedy' relatives were out to grab their property after her father's death.

On contact, Tariqul Islam Tuhin, a nephew of Anwar Fakir's wife Hena said, "we had no greed or enmity for the wealth of Anwar's family. Anwar got the land from his father-in-law (Tariqul's grandfather), so Mobi's claim is totally baseless".

"If we had any such motive to grab the land or if we created any pressure on them, why they did not inform the police about the matter earlier", he posed.

Md Zakir Hossain, uncle of Mobi also denied her claim.

Asaduzzaman, Azharul Islam Rubel and Mizanur Rahman, all of them neighbours of Hena, said they never heard about any torture or repression on this family. But they acknowledged the problems created over the burial of Anwar Hossain and said most locals avoided them after the incident.

Nine people including eight members of Anwar's family apparently committed mass suicide Wednesday jumping under a running train at Kashor. The dead were identified as Hena Begum, 60, wife of late Anwar Hossain Fakir, their daughters Akhtari Begum, 35, Murshida, 30 and Shabnam, 10, sons Arif, 26 and Rahat, 18 and Mobi's son Mollah, 8 and her daughter Mariam, 10 and Lina, 32, the maid servant of the family.