Police await autopsy report
Police are waiting for the autopsy report to determine whether Nayar Sultana, a popular child actress in the 1980s, committed suicide or if she was murdered.
Law enforcers, however, said they found evidence that the victim had disputes with her husband, Ali Amin, and in-laws.
Police on Thursday night recovered the hanging body of Nayar, who played Tuni, a young girl in the popular drama serial "Ei Shob Din Ratri" on Bangladesh Television in 1985-86, from her house in the capital's Gulshan.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, yesterday said they interrogated several family members of Nayar, her neighbours and building staff and found that Nayar and Amin used to quarrel over family matters often.
“On the day of her death, she had an altercation with her husband, and her husband left the house after that,” Rafiqul told The Daily Star.
According to police, Nayar's suspicion of her husband being a drug addict and having an extra-marital affair fuelled the feuds.
“We are investigating the matter and will decide on our next course of action after getting the autopsy report,” said the OC.
It was not clear when the report would come out.
After Nayar's body was recovered, her mother Razia Sultana filed a murder case against Amin and his parents.
In the case statement, Razia alleged Amin was a drug addict and he beat up her daughter regularly.
She also alleged Amin strangled her daughter and then hung her from the ceiling and fled.
Police arrested him on Thursday night.
However, when police produced him before a Dhaka court seeking to take him on remand, Razia appealed for his bail, citing family wellbeing.
Later, she told police that the family suspected Nayar committed suicide.
The court rejected both the bail and the remand petitions, and sent Amin to prison.
Yesterday, this correspondent went to talk to her at Nayar's house but she refused to talk.
Contacted over the phone, a person who identified as a relative said: “We are not in a position to talk to journalists.”
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