Death of Raudha: Father sues classmate
Raudha's father Mohamed Athif filed a murder case against one of the classmates of her daughter with a Rajshahi court yesterday, 13 days after the Maldivian student and model was found dead in a medical college dormitory.
The accused is also a foreign student.
Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam accepted the case after it was filed with Rajshahi Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court, Athif's lawyer Kamrul Manir told The Daily Star.
After the case was filed, Athif walked out of the court premises, holding a placard that read, “I appeal for a fair investigation and justice for my daughter Raudha Athif's death.”
Raudha, an MBBS second-year student of Islami Bank Medical College in the city's Nawdapara area, was found dead in her college dormitory room on March 29.
Later in the day, the college authorities filed an unnatural death case with Shah Makhdum Police Station, claiming the 21-year-old committed suicide by hanging herself.
The autopsy report said the same.
However, her family rejected the report and kept insisting that she was murdered.
Mohamed Athif, who has been in Rajshahi since March 30, alleged in his case statement that the accused strangulated Raudha to death in or outside the room and later kept the body on the bed. He claimed he saw finger marks on Raudha's neck.
The college authorities claimed Raudha had locked her room before hanging herself and the accused brought the body down, breaking into the room.
In the case statement, Athif said none but the accused saw Raudha hanging from the ceiling and he “can't understand how anyone could break into the room without leaving any sign of forced entry.”
A week before her death, Raudha complained to her mother that the accused had mixed sedatives with her juice. The accused and Raudha had also exchanged text messages which revealed a bitter relation between the two girls, Athif alleged.
Athif further alleged that the accused misused Raudha's social media accounts after her death as she knew the passwords. The girl also knew the passport of Raudha's phone which was later seized by police.
The accused could not be reached for comments despite repeated attempts yesterday.
Talking to this correspondent earlier, she had claimed that she along with several other female students and hostel staff discovered Raudha hanging from the ceiling. Later, she brought the body down, thinking Raudha was still alive.
Meanwhile, Detective Branch of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police was investigating the unnatural death case.
Alamin Hossain, assistant commissioner of DB in the district, said, they were investigating the case giving due importance on it. “We don't know why the victim's father was still aggrieved and filed the murder case”.
The unnatural death case was produced before an executive magistrate court in Rajshahi yesterday for a second time for registering it and the court fixed today for deciding on it.
The court also did not pass any order on the police's petition for sending Raudha's laptop and mobile phone to the CID's forensic laboratory for extracting their contents.
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